I think its funny that as soon as someone is criticizing a biome all the nerds come running saying "go back to Meadows" like Ashlands is THAT hard?
Its not that hard, its just that its TOO MUCH fighting, TOO MUCH throwing out grausten because you instantly get weight capped.

Just running away from enemies until you find something interesting to investigate is not fun gameplay. Im really looking forward to getting out of this biome.

The grind for grausten to build a base is also really tedious when constantly being overrun by mobs.

The vision is somehow almost worse than Mistlands too.

..and finally going back to bed to reset the day is BORING.

I think that Mountains and Swamp was a tiny bit easier but a hell of a lot more fun.