This keeps being explained to and ignored by the git gud trolls, but I'll try again. Auto-block wasn't implemented as an afterthought, it was the only option when M&B originally launched. Auto-block remains, to this day, the default option for all M&B titles except for Bannerlord. If anything created a "parallel society" it was the later addition of manual-block, which tryhards embraced and for no good reason are now insisting should be the *only* option. I think the tryhards have spent so much time in MP, or playing some of the big mods like Floris or Brytenwalda, that they've forgotten what the basic vanilla M&B experience is.
If you don't want to use auto-block, don't use it. That shouldn't stop the option existing for those who do want to use it.
M&B tryhards: Can we get a manual block option if we want more of a challenge than auto-block?
M&B casuals: No objection here
Bannerlord casuals: Can we get an auto-block option, as has been in the series since day one, for various reasons including limited play time, poor reflexes, old age, medical conditions, etc.
Bannerlord tryhards: Git gud or get lost
This thread will end just like all the other auto-block ones have. Locked due to git gud trolls.