No, this makes the world more realistic.

I have always had a problem in games when all areas are gated by mob level. You go to these areas, they have villages with regular people walking around. I assume these regular people have to go into the fields to farm, go into the woods to hunt, gather, cut down trees, travel to nearby towns to trade etc. Yet you have to be high-level, a famous adventurer, and the focus of the entire story to take two steps without getting your ass handed to you.

The way it is now, it feels more like a world that real people can live and work in.

TLDR; Just because you have to be a bad-ass to kill a grizzly bear with a bowie knife doesn't mean you can't walk around Yellowstone armed with nothing but a water bottle and trail mix.