User blog comment:Jimeee/Skyrim 1.9 beta update adds Legendary difficulty and raises level cap (Updated Apr 8th)/@comment-4854487-20130315212237/@comment-24.8.87.119-20130317045312

Difficulty is entirely relative, though. What's hard for one person might be easy for another. I, myself, played more than one perfectly legitimate game (i.e. no cheats) where I was killing everything in the game in 2 or 3 hits with my hand-crafted legendary weapons—Alduin and a legendary dragon took a few more, but both went down in less than 30 seconds—on Master difficulty. I've also challenged myself to games where I only used loot drop/merchant gear, unenhanced, and by the time ebony gear showed up I could easily handle Hard.

tl;dr just because YOU think it's stupid doesn't make it stupid.