Have you considered adding a cheat menu to the game for people who want to do a bit less grinding and just want to explore the world and appreciate the art. Maybe have a menu to change your slaves stats and another to change your own. You decide if it's something you want to do.
yhe i could get behind this all tho comabat is easy as hell grinding skill and reputation is a pain obviously as you add quests and such it would get easier to gain rep skills tend to be a little grindy for me a single training sesh with a teacher and im luck to get two points in fire arms n my guy still misses half his shots in some fights its also difficult to train ur slaves they get pretty much same amount of points even tho they have no fire arms training at all so training them to have any skill at all is a little grindy not impossible but it leaves u piking either you go out to day n earn some rep n money or you sit around n train n if ur paying for the top mercs day to day it can get expensive