I'd like to have stamina in game. To make sense of running around calradia chasing looters and having an impact on my character eventually over-enduring everyone on battlefield.
I want breakable lance for my character, so he can, after a hundred of charges, learn not to break it in first one anymore and use it for two or three more charges.
I want my character to learn reading and then read books during waiting for his smithing stamina to come back to him again so he can use that useless waiting time to increase his peasant brain capacity on different matters like medicine, engineering, economics...
I want my character to learn tactics from more experienced commanders by joining them in fight. As he continues to understand more and more how one should command his troops, he would unlock more and more useful formations to execute those tactics.
I want strength back. I want to see my fresh character with strenght 10 not being able to swing two handed norse battle axe. I want to see him collapse after few steps under the weight of full set of cataphract armor.
I want to see my character doing ripostes and deadly combos...see believable increase in combat skill. Not just that he can swing in ridiculous arcs +2% faster.
All those "perks" seems to me like from some cheap "free-to-play" smartphone game. In fact this could be a pretty good smartphone game. It already is just a clickfest thru multiple menus for me