Lacks polish? It's the real Hell, just in menial labour form targeted at the player.
Oh man, and we haven't even mentioned the lack of squad names or other lacking functionality of the military screens. Nothing like guessing if the Caverns of Threating or Deeply Shielded Flowers is your axes or your hammers.
Having to browse through every dwarf on a list ingame each time you want to assign a new one to a slot in the squad, dwarf therapist not allowing you to assign dwarfs to squads, not being able to browse military and civilian skills at the same time so you dont end up making your noble/bookkeeper/trader/metalsmith/legendary brewer into a recruit. Or end up drafting a hunter/miner/woodcutter which messes up his uniform.
And what about the fact that a uniform sword weapon will cause the dwarf to show up as a "no relevant skills" even if he has legendary speardwarf. Its however possible to deal with by having the uniform without weapon assigned so you can browse them with weapon skills showing, and then you have to assign a weapon to every last one of them.
If only the "individual choice" wasn't actually "random quality and random type of weapon in the fortress" instead "best quality weapon of the type i am most skilled with".
Or what about military dwarves leaving their rotten plump helmets all over the barracks if you enable individual or squad equipment, which you have to manually dump because they are "claimed". ARCHERY targets broken in the most recent version, injuriy creating job cancellation spam, dwarves who will either rest forever or not at all having yellow injuries annoying you to death.
Seriously the military system even though I use it in 100% of my forts is one of them most time consuming shit to wade through in DF. And the product is either clearly overpowered dwarves or wuzzes that get strangled by a single troglodyte.