Combat system is very basic and very boring in it's current state, making the creatures annoying does not make the game "challenging". It makes it frustrating experience and not fun to play at all. Currently all there is to this game is building and grinding materials (unless you use the console). So if the main intention was to stop the players from playing the game without using cheats to avoid frustration well then they succeded. There is nothing challenging or fun being swarmed by mobs that are pretty easy to kill and offer no reward for doing so while at the same time they can take away hours of hard work.

I seriously do not expect this game to improve anymore, if you ask me it should have been left as is (and still somewhat fun) instead of introducing those weird "fixes".