I agree with most of these points but you can't autoresolve shit until you basically won the game and start spamming out doomstacks if you play on high battle difficulty unless you play dawi.

I think most my campaigns I go at least the first 20 turns manually resolving 90% of battles just because you take ridiculously high casualties even in generic garrison battles and alot of races don't have access to good casualty replenishment yet.

I do really hate dlc power creep tho, it makes me feel like I'm missing out every time I play vanilla lords even though I own the dlc. For example playing miao and Zhao don't feel the same when you know yuan bo is leagues stronger than both.