Its not neccessarily *too difficult*, it just used to be easy awhile ago when I last played through, and now well, I've had to reload a save before "Cheesy Story" and grind a bit to manage to progress that old main quest; still got past it in the end
I did run into a more serious issue afterwards. I hadnt played this in multiple updates so I decided to start fresh.
I got to the next quest (thighs of thunder) which I'm playing for the first time. I gathered my group in the church and the inn, had the full party, and decided to stop by Grindr so the prior scenario wouldnt happen again by getting an extra level. That worked. But... as you exit Grindr, you're alone and cant recover the 3 party members. If you go on to the bandit camp, you do so solo. No way to bring the 3 companions (even though theyre still in dialogues there) the hero is then on his own in the actual battles there. Revisiting the inn and church doesnt allow you to add them back again.
Seems like it has to be a bug.