Personally I thought the light spectrum in the game was pretty cool. Yes indeed, it was often quite dark, particularly underground or out in the wild at night. But that's what I used Night Eye for--what I found to be an extremely useful ability. To keep from having to cast it all the time I eventually just created Constant Effect Night Eye. Because it required a low amount of enchantment points, I'd often throw in a few points on items that did something else, but had some enchant points leftover. By the time I was in my prime, the world was constantly super bright and I never worried about darkness.

Yes, I agree about the reptitive dialogue and combat being kind of hoaky. But I think trying to find people was just part of the game, and like the lack of natural light, simulated challenges that a character would have experienced if it had been "real."