or they could just go into the options and set it to 'easy'?
Except people have proven completely unwilling to do that. The same respec-niggers that are asking for respec have been busy bitching about how hard the game is because they want to play on hard difficulty without it being hard, you fucking potato.
Next people will be asking for a button that makes the custom characters automatically
...
go into options and set 'auto-level' to true
do you guys actually play this game or just pretend to play it?
Tardmaster, try to wrap your head around the idea that just because a game isn't perfect doesn't mean it's unplayable, and there are varying degrees of awful. For example, you're a fucking idiot, but you're not Roqua, and neither of you, despite being shit, are enough to make people stop using the imperfect-but-still-great Codex.
It's not that hard to imagine if you just try.
In this case, we can recognize auto-leveling as shit, but it doesn't change a game or make it worse in the same way or the same magnitude as, for example, respecs, nor does auto-leveling make the game unplayable.
Does that make sense to you, or should I draw you a map, hang it around your neck, and ask your mom to explain it to you when you get home?
Was there ever a popular crpg that didn't eventually get external character and savegame editors? Already exist for Kingmaker. Why does anybody need respeccing ingame? So it doesn't feel like cheating so much?
I think it's because they want to feel validated in what they do, as if the game design sanctions what they're doing. Which, of course, the game design then inevitably does, as it moulds around the assumption that no mechanical aspects even
can matter for narrative interactions, and the player(s) must be assumed to qualify for everything, even if it makes no sense contextually á la Elder Scrolls post-Morrowind, where you can become the head of every popamole guild and organization, and is in fact encouraged to do so.
The end of the line of this thinking is the creation of systems where you don't even need to ever respec, because respeccing becomes just another meaningless potential chore, and the removal of restrictive checks and such merely a "QOL"-improvement.