

Don’t fall for western propaganda. Even if you had a peaceful and democratically elected government, you’d still be a target for the USA. Your government would get couped and then they would install their own pariah government in place, destabilize the country, cause suffering for the populace, and then reap the profits from your natural resources until you’d have nothing. That’s their MO.
Also the combat. DA:O was already quite streamlined when compared to other CRPGs of the time, and they only dumbed it down further and further with each new iteration.