And for me it's quite opposite,in current game i feel that i am finding good items way too soon,like auger,nailgun(never crafted hammer),steel tools,also few cleavers,probably i had them by lvl ~30(loot options on default)
Those items i feel helped me too much to soon,some items i found BEFORE i crafted them felt really OP(destroyed them) so i instantly felt some boredom adding up,because i really enjoy to progress extremely slowly.
Those massive Wandering Hordes always find me and they stay near my base,even if i sit silently,probably it's intentional to make my life miserable,but i wished just for once that they would run nearby and away without stopping(like in vanilla game),to kill them is easy but takes lot of time,so i started cheating little bit,leaving and continuing a game(they dissapear) also changed XP gain to 25%,because player level goes up pretty fast when you kill big hordes.
Just few personal not so important notices of mine.
The mod is simply outstanding,even if/when some people find they don't like one or two things,because other 1000 things they like makes them sooo happy(like me) honest thank you RH team for making good game 3x good