There should be a mod in which bandits start wearing higher level armor than just fur or studded armor as the player increases in level. For example: Bandits have a chance to start wearing steel plate armor when the player reaches level 20 or so. Thoughts?

Bandit chiefs quickly begin to wear plate armour in the vanilla game, they don't all wear it because then they'd look the same. Sure, they could do with better armour later on, but there's only so many armours in the game, and it'd be silly to see a common bandit in ebony.

The point is that at least the bosses wear something better instead of every bandit. Plus, they'd only have a percentage chance of wearing something better, the high your level is the higher percentage of them would wear higher level armor. Anyways, it was just an idea to give higher level players some better loot and make the game a little more difficult.

Bandits getting stuck with rugged leather and fur armor was a response to how Oblivion had petty thieves in fancy glass gear at higher levels.

It would be nice if higher level bandits, necromancers and vampires had fancier gear on them that's not too rare or extravagant. It's not simply for visual flair but would also be practical for making out the bigger threats in a crowd. It's a mod idea I have, but I'm not a modeler by any stretch. Maybe vampire lords and such could be wearing retextured Greybeard robes.