Agree with most of these but disagree with the encyclopaedia bit.
Since 1.7.2, most encyclopaedia entries for cities and notable characters and game mechanics have had their grammatical errors fixed and quality of writing updated. There are still some floating around, but the vast majority are good.
To add to your list of eyesores:
- Some nobles wear helmets or armour that are actually lower quality/worse looking than what the troops behind them are wearing! Empire nobles are the worst offenders, all their helmets look tarnished or rusty. We have these great models for battle crowns and normal crowns and fancy armour in the game, but a lot of them don't get used at all.
- Vlandian Sergeant wearing an Empire culture Legionary cape, Sturgian Veteran Bowman wearing a fancy helmet that just doesn't suit the rest of his armour... And the green hood on the Banner Knight looks lame. Vlandia should have their own capes and shoulder armours that actually match the rest of their equipment.
- The Italo-Norman facemask helm is a good addition, but has an exposed gap at the neck.
- The rhomphaia existing.
- The menavlion being used as a weird slashing polearm instead of the pike it actually was in real life.
- In the animation for executing someone, I noticed the executioner is actually standing too close to the prisoner, and instead of hitting them with the axe blade he'll hit them with the handle when the screen goes black.
- Battanian Volunteers look like they just turned up for a friendly game of croquet. Why do so many of them use these two-handed mallets? What sort of semi-barbarian society needs large amounts of whack-a-mole, Looney Tunes, comically giant wooden hammers?
- The visible seam at the edge of the map.
- A lot of armours are too bulky in the body, and quite a few helmets look too big as well. Might have been an effort to avoid clipping issues on TW's part, if so I hope they find a different solution that looks better if possible.
- The reports sidebar is too cluttered up with information that isn't useful to you 90 % of the time, with no way of filtering out the thousandth report of who won what tournament and who got released from where.
- Pendraic and Pendraic Castle's location doesn't make sense from a lore perspective. How did the Empire get so deep and far north into Battanian territory? It's extremely far away from the Khuzaits and Aserai. There isn't even any forest nearby as described in the story. It should swap locations with, say, Rhemtoil and Rhemtoil Castle - which are on the border with the Empire, and have forests.
- WORST eyesore in the game is the masses of troops jiggling at high speed once they enter melee, though this probably would fall under the bug category.
Otherwise though? Game's presentation is zuging fantastic, top notch visual style and UI, and looks great.