The ironic thing about mastering certain skills is you barely have to use any skills ever again. If you want an easy life in Skyrim master conjuration and enchantment and get all the relevant perks, I did and I haven't had a fight in months! Find the toughest characters you can kill and resurrect as dead thralls, you can have 2, having a warrior and a mage is best, then enchant some tasty weaponry, absorb health/magicka is great because you still absorb even though you don't have the weapon, kit them both out with multiple staffs, a bow etc, load them with all the potions you find and before anything gets a chance to lay a finger on you they have annihilated it, they are far better and more efficient at quick changing weapons and using items and they basically just don't die while they have potions, and even on the rare occasions they do you have to put in some minor work like summoning 2 dremora lords to finish the job, then you just resurrect them again. Great for carrying your stuff around too, just kill them, put whatever you like in their inventory then resurrect them again. Brilliant! Shame they won't use armour and other apparel you give them, but frankly if they did, even on master difficulty, the game wouldn't be a game anymore because, other than choosing where to go, you wouldn't be playing anymore, although I have had many hours entertainment simply watching their ruthless efficiency at destroying anything that comes within 10 metres of me and even looks at me the wrong way. I took them to Dragonreach and didn't like the way Irileth spoke to me, so I blasted her across the hall with unrelenting force which wasn't appreciated by the Jarl (or Irileth) and the only reason I ended up dead is because they can't be killed, my 2 thralls took them out quite a few times and about 7 guards, all I had to do is use ethereal and watch some A-class smiting, there were bodies flying about everywhere!! Have a bandit chief and a Thalmor wizard at the moment, best combination so far.

I'm trying to find the word of power in this wall of text so I can GTFO, but I'm not having any luck.

lol, well don't worry, I'm sure you will encounter many more unfathomable walls obstructing you on your journey through life, one of the hazards of being a nause.

I guess many people choose to play the game in many different ways, molding an experience that best suits them to get as much enjoyment out of the game as possible.

Personally in this game i have chosen to go with the flow and see what the game brings. I am not encountering any of the "flaws" that a lot of other people seem to be complaining about, albeit power leveling never really does it for me anyway. That is apart from oblivion where my character had the traits of Gandolf, Spatacus, Some free runner dude, etc, etc, way too OP.

Oh don't get me wrong, I like to play it through properly too, this is more for entertainment, my character has levelled through playing normally and is more than capable of looking after herself, already at level 50. In Oblivion I had a mage and warrior that couldn't die, literally, even with 8 guards hammering away at them for an hour! With enough of the right sigil stones and correct combination of equipment and apparel, becoming deathproof was relatively easy, although it does ruin the game. With this technique I can die, pretty easily if I literally do nothing, but basically all I have to do is defend myself occasionally or if its a dragon and the thralls do the rest, this is a perk of playing and enjoying the game properly, after 136hrs think I'm entitled to sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labour! They just took out Nahiliiv for me, about 3 minutes after Alduin resurrected him/her, its just beautiful to watch! Besides you get to see all the great equipment and weapons you've bought/found/made in use all at the same time, its a real show, lightning, fire, frost, atronachs, swords etc, all being used fluidly in any given battle, its actually more fun in many ways because you don't have to pause every few seconds to equip or use something.

Ha ha, I'm going to have to steal the line for future wall'o'text's. Brilliant.