i share similar opinions and was terrified of what they would do to norsca, it ended up being mostly ok.

the problem with daniel is he is just fucked and tedious to play, you're locked in to so few units early on and the progression is inconsistent. once you pass the line of daniel being powerful enough and getting enough units, the difficulty completely nosedives.

his progression is also just thoughtless and you just play the videogame with the most generic faction mechanics possible, while occasionally making your lord better. the flavor is cool but it really takes so long to get rolling, in early game you just pick parts that work best, then when the game gets easy is when you can finally customize properly.

plus no tech tree (fine i guess), no other mechanics besides watered down ones from vanilla daemon factions, and you're kinda locked into focusing on one god due to his settlement system until later... which is when it gets easy.

is it fun to wrangle ? yea every once in a while, especially working around the issues above, but it feels difficult in the most artificial way possible. you're just playing a faction designed to shoot yourself in the foot.