Somehow along the way I got used to playing Bethesda games on hardest setting, often with mods that increase enemy spawns or improve A.I.
As a result, if I'm not dying and reloading numerous times with each combat encounter then it feels unbalanced, like the player is too powerful. Really enjoy that tactical feeling when you get a little further into an epic battle with a large group of enemies, save, get killed, reload, manage to kill one more enemy, save, die, reload, etc.
Recall similar experience back in Oblivion with FCOM, Duke Patrick's mods and that brutal difficulty slider.