I agree… I hope the developers don’t listen to these complaints… lockpicking and other activities aren’t broken, they’re hard. You start the game as a skill-less peasant (and player). It’s expected you’ll be messing up and when you finally get the necessary skills it makes the activity (and rewards) more enjoyable. Also, regarding saving the game… you can save at any time with potions. They’re too expensive? Use alchemy bench to make more…
Regarding the patch, for me it BROKE the game… texture loading is worse than before, FPS is horrible and the torch hotkey is gone (making it unnecessarily cumbersome to activate/deactivate by going in the inventory screen). Also, conversation load times which were already bad seemed to get worse. I’ll wait for another fix to continue playing the game…