Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

I'm very compelled by the setting, the main characters, and the in depth mechanics of this game. I was very excited to run around as Henry doing medieval ♥♥♥♥, when I finally get to choose what to do, the game seems to suggest I make an honest living as a blacksmith till I have the money to start going out and staying in inns and stuff. So I end up spending a whole day blacksmithing (like 4 irl hours), only to realize that after material costs, I'm not making enough money to actually eat. So I go off on a quest and and after 20-30 minutes of walking I'm slain by a bandit because I have no armor, and don't really have a grasp on the combat mechanics, and wake up at the start of the day. And that's when I decided I probably would not play this game again.