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If you play this game without mods you deserve your shitty experience. Every single complaint in this game can be fixed with a simple mod, often with an MWSE mod which doesn't even require an actual mod installation and can be "uninstalled" (removed from the MWSE folder) at a moments notice without doing anything bad to your save file.

Combat especially can be fixed with a single mod that improves every single aspect of it immensely. And then preferably another mod to make the AI even better here are those two mods.
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/51034
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/49670

And here's a marksman overhaul for good measure
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/49657

And I'll throw in a total level system overhaul which completely removes that absolutely horrendous "making sure you spam skills enough to get +5 (x3) when leveling up". It's literally just a retarded chore that ruins the flow of the game every 10 skill levels.
So here is a complete overhaul that removes all that bullshit letting you simply.....play the game! At exactly the leveling pace you want as well, I personally level much slower than vanilla
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47452

With these four mods alone the game is automatically twice as good as vanilla. And they're all MWSE mods which means installing and uninstalling is as simple as dragging and dropping the single mod folder into the MWSE "mods" directory. It's seriously so much better than any random mod potentially breaking your game if you just install it and decide you don't want it.