User blog comment:TESClaymore/Skyrim Answers from Bethesda/@comment-4256968-20110831155746

I hope they chance the rarity of the higher end armors and weapons. In oblivion, everyone had ebony/daedric/glass armor and weapons towards the end of the game (it is a bit silly that a lowly bandit is INSANELY better equipped than say....the people who protect the emperor!).

I understand bethesda wanted to give high level players a challenge, but there has to be better ways of doing that.