I hope the developers keep in mind that this is a game, not reality (not even close to reality), and that game-players have different skill-levels.
I see a lot of posts here about “realism,” and there’s nothing particularly wrong with that, provided that it doesn’t conflict with game-play. But you need to choose game-play over realism every time if there’s a conflict.
Also, a game’s most enthusiastic fans always want it to be harder, harder, harder,… but they’re not necessarily representative of everyone who will be buying the game. Of course, I’m not representative, either. I’m terrible at these kinds of games. I still buy them - lots of them - but I need a lot easier game than most people, I’m sure.
I loved the original Mount & Blade, even though I was terrible at it. The mounted combat was still great. (Indeed, I’ve never seen mounted combat - or even just horseback riding - done so well in a game.) I could seldom actually hit anyone with my sword, not from horseback, but I could always ride around and poke people with a sharp stick. Of course, that wasn’t hard enough for their most vocal fans, so Mount & Blade: Warband destroyed all that.
I couldn’t play it at all. Lances jumped unpredictably from one side of my horse to the other (through the horse’s head, which was a neat trick), and they became completely worthless in tournaments. Other combat became more difficult, too, and it was already past my level of competence.
Most people aren’t nearly as bad as I am at ‘real-time’ combat, but I suspect that most people aren’t as good at it as the most vocal fans on these forums, either. At least, all you ever hear is “make it harder.” It can never be difficult enough for some people.
That’s perfectly fine. If you can make the game impossible enough for those people, that’s great,… as long as you provide options enough for people who aren’t that good. We still buy games. We’re your customers, too, even if we’re pretty inept at everything but paying for the game. 
So please keep us in mind, too.
I’m never going to be good at it, but I don’t expect to be. But I’ll be very disappointed if I can’t have fun with it. As I say, I was very bad at the combat in the original Mount & Blade, but I still loved the game. The combat was simple, but fun. So if you have to make the combat here complex and difficult, please try to put in options so I can turn that stuff off - as much as possible, at least.
I don’t want to deprive anyone else of the super-difficult combat they crave, but can you make as much of that as possible just optional? That way, we can set it to our own level of incompetence.