Numbers bloat
Just finished my first play through in over 10 years. One thing I had forgot that I really like about this game is that the numbers don’t bloat to the tens of thousands. In my run (not completionist or very optimized) I ended the game around level 45 and 2500-3500 hp-ish on each character.
Comparing that to the astronomical numbers so prevalent in the genre now a days they are very modest. And I love it. It makes every stat seem more important, and it feels better.