I'll have to disagree with you there. Back when I first started playing the game, I found it fun after approximately 14 seconds into the game - and still do.

Low level stuff could always use tweaking though, and I actually would like SE to go back to ARR (base game) systems as a whole (including character creation) and polish things up a bit - ShB is absolutely stunning in every regard and bringing previous parts of the game closer to that standard could only ever be a good thing.