My point is, dumbing down the combat system for people who cant handle the realism destroys what they were trying to make. It wouldnt be KDC with a easier system. Me personally, I am just sick and tired of simple, hack and slash bullshit that is so devoid of any form of reality or that it all just looks ludicrous.
There is dumbing down and then there is realistic...there is nothing realistic about a common robber,wearing rags, using a farmers tool defending and fighting like a master swordsmen...the point I made that you keep dancing around.
And no, there should not be 1000s of master swordsmen
during this time period especially in a small area like in the game. You wouldnt even see that many in a professional army of 10,000 men as most of them would be what we would call "middle-class", not peon, not noble, and would not be master of any weapon but a generalist like a man-at-arms and most armies at the time had far more spearmen than swordsmen. The swordsmen actually ranks rather low on the quantity list in medieval armies
of this time period behind heavy and light cavalry, bowmen, spear and pikemen and there were equal parts mace and sword. It is
during this time period that the one handed sword started to be called an "arming sword" due to the fact it was no longer the main weapon, even of knights since it was also called a knightly sword, knightly arming sword...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightly_sword
Back to your point. It isnt even realistic sword combat and the developers have stated that they DUMBED IT DOWN to make it easier...yet refuse to address the many complaints about how all they did was make it BORING and TEDIOUS.
" Our combat needs to be more simple and less complex compared to real combat, as you need to control it in the game."
https://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com/t/realistic-sword-combat/26510
That is a bogus statement to cover for bad programming...there are many games out there where you can do far more, more fluidly, with great depth.
So again, the game needs more mod support so gamers can make mods that improve on it. A thing that you, do not have to even use since you like unrealistic combat.