I understand that the base AI in most Total War games is lacking, but it would be nice if overhaul mods-- especially historical accuracy-oriented ones-- did not all end up sacrificing accuracy to make the game arbitrarily difficult. The stack spam is absurd, even on lower difficulty levels. Minor one province factions throw around armies Rome can't numerically match in the early game due to being artificially handicapped, and larger powers like Carthage just get to effectively spawn doomstacks forever until you slog your way to their capital.

Surely there's some sort of middle ground between "AI decisions are entirely random" and "Aggressiveness is juiced up to the max, to the point where good relations don't matter because the AI are predisposed to betray you, and none of the game's aggressive economy or population overhaul rules apply to any AI faction." The stack spam and infinite money for AI is annoying enough in base TW games, do we really need that added to hyper-aggressive AI (even on low difficulties) and substantial limitations on the player faction and -only- the player faction?

As many submods as there are, is it prohibitively difficult to have the AI tuning be a submod instead of integrated in from the start? Mostly just lack understanding for the discrepancy between "More historically accurate" as a vision and "Endless doomstacks + broken autoresolve" as execution.