"The basic fact that lot of people make an issue out of it is a proof that there are some problems about this game."
This. Right here.
Where are these "lots of people make an issue out of this game being too easy"? No, seriously, I want to know. Been watching this topic for a while and I think I've seen THREE people complain it's too easy while everyone else says, "It's fine, just mod it if you want it harder. It's already plenty difficult for most of us".
To be honest, I don't think Toady is going to "make it harder" in the ways you want to exist. In fact, if you leave the game "vanilla" and don't do "common defense strategies", the game is quite difficult.
I don't create an "all purpose defeats everything trap" because while it's a nice feat of engineering... I simply do NOT want to focus entirely on defense. I train a military and put up traps, but they don't always work.
I also let my dwarves roam all over the map to get what they want.
I also do NOT seal off the Caverns below. I leave them open and let dwarves explore/patrol down there. Heck, get a string of bad luck with a Forgotten Beast and he could wipe out ALL of your dwarves in short notice with some random status affliction (instant death effects are bad.... VERY BAD!).
I dunno, the game is "easy" if you avoid the hard stuff. Easy to wall yourself into an area and never approach danger what-so-ever. Easy to use a "danger room" exploit to train an unstoppable military in a season or two. Easy to make backup saves or have your game save every season in case you screw something up. Easy to pretty much avoid any kind of risk in the game.
However, Dwarf Fortress is not necessarily about that. If you want it to be easy, it can be easy. If you want it to be difficult, you can make it difficult. Why do you think Toady leaves our ability to mod the game in it? Why do you think it's made SO EASY to mod it?
Just saying... The game is as easy or as hard as you make it. Yeah, I can create a fortress where nobody dies too. I can say "It's too easy!" when I choose to play that way. I try to make it "Medium difficulty" for me though. Just sayin'...
You yell and scream and offer complaints "the game is too easy!" but when we offer you EVEN EASIER solutions for making it harder... Well, you pout and stomp your foot and whine and complain... And then you scream at the top of your lungs, "well, the vanilla version should be harder!".
I seriously don't understand it. The game is ALREADY as flexible or as hard/easy as you want to make it.
Oh, wait, I get it.
You are a LAZY PLAYER. You don't want to be bothered to have to mod anything! No, you want OTHER PEOPLE to do the work for you, because it's just too much time to make a game more difficult for yourself. It's someone else's job to do that for you? Really? Why does it have to be Toady's job to make the game more difficult for you? Why can't it be your responsibility to play in a way that makes the game harder for you?
Take some responsibility for yourself. If you aren't entertained by the game (despite how easy it is to make it MUCH harder to play) then quit playing. Or, wait for future versions when stuff is more fleshed out. Perhaps more monsters will be added later with worse syndromes. If you really do love the game (as much as I know you're going to CLAIM you do) then modding it and doing what you can to extend the life of it YOURSELF... You'd try playing new ways. You'd mod different stuff into the game (you can even create your own creatures!) to up the anté.