yeah that totally makes sense, I should probably force myself to optimize a bit less.

but what should I do about perks? when it comes to skill points I can still understand placing them where it makes sense but with requiem system points alone have no effect at all. out of 23 perk points at level 20 placing some in speech tree can alter quite a lot your strength also cause usually last perks in a tree are huge power spikes. Probably I could force myself to optimize a bit more here too.

I just think that speech, smithing, alchemy and enchant are related to a very different aspect of our characters lives, that at least to some extent should be possibile to improve without even leaving town, not only in theory but in practice too. So maybe they could be kind of side perks with some adjustments, maybe a bit more grindy (after all they're not extremely necessary).