He definitely felt like a demigod to me. Just like with labrat1469, my attempts to deal with him all ended with me going to military school. Every time I thought I made progress, another unpleasant surprise popped up. Another skill check to pass, or Ann or someone else taking Eric's word over mine. You've seen how people on this forum react to him even being mentioned. Imagine how they feel encountering him in the game. There's a large number of us that just don't want to see him at all anymore. It's not that we're against a challenge. However, it needs to be reasonable, and there should be a better reward to it than "Eric didn't screw one of my sisters today".Eric is not a demigod and very easy to work around until you get rid of him.
You can build up well over 5k cash and 5 cam's without allowing him to do anything other than screwing Ann and peeping at Alice. Easy Peasy.
This was back in .5, so maybe it changed since then. I have avoided Eric like the plague since then, because even if I knew how to "contain" him, having him screw Ann, or watch Alice, and just make me devote time to the status quo of having him not get any worse is not my idea of fun. However, I know that for other people, that is their idea of fun. I think it's hard to reconcile the two in a game like this and make everyone happy, especially with Eric being such an obstacle so early.