1. Vampires are scaled enemies. At high levels, neither NPCs nor guards are able to stop them effectively
2. So, to stop one annoying aspect of Dawnguard, you've got to endure another annoyance? (if you're playing Skyrim since November 2011, you've seen all already, not to mention that a lot of people cannot spend the whole day playing Skyrim just to go from Riften to Solitude).
3. How's realistic to suddenly have an army of undead wiping the cities clean? Attacks happen in the same cell, even if you don't see them, preventing any effective way of defense. It's not like Dragons who are announced by a loud shriek and the epic music.

This is the internet. Apparently logic and a different opinion aren't allowed here.
Edit: (To clarify, I agree with you, but apparently we should feel bad for even thinking like that. Who knew?)

And, for the record, I get the MAJORITY of my Vampire attacks in the middle of the day, very often in the middle of towns when I fast travel (anyone saying 'well don't do that' is an idiot; it's a feature of the game, what the hell am I meant to do? Why should I have to ignore it?) and none of them seem any less powerful when in full sunlight. Which is STUPID. As stupid as the damn NPCs running in with their fists and iron daggers.

Also, maybe it's just me, but I don't find 'Go around and reverse pickpocket armour and weapons onto NPCs' to be reasonable, sensible advice. For a starters, if 'you' (general you) have to do that to keep basic store-owners and whatnot from getting killed, then something is very seriously wrong.

Either way, I think when Hearthfire comes for PC I'll be migrating and then I can simply self-patch all the junk that annoys me, and fix bugs rather than be stuck with them on Xbox.

There have been enough solutions provided throughout numerous threads on this issue...some people don't do anything and suffer, some people put up with it or enjoy it, some people actively go out and take the monsters on head on, like true nords.

Bugged or not, players can do things about it...stopping yourself from fast travelling to the front gates of towns isn't 'stopping playing the game the way you want', when (using whiterun for example) you can fast travel to the stables 100 metres away, or to dragonreach just above the market. Prudent gameplay or precautions taken don't prevent people from playing 'the way they want', otherwise we may be seeing people complaining that the game won't let them beat dragons when fighting in their underclothes with an unsmithed iron dagger.

It's a bit like Fallout 3...if you ran or sprinted across the wasteland, chances were you would get ambushed by something that would take you down in no time, so for most players it simply wasn't an option to use...in post-Dawnguard Skyrim, you don't fast travel to town gates or walk around with your thumb where the sun doesn't shine...you have to have situational awareness and you have to take responsibility for your actions or lack of them, or pay the price gamewise.

Jolly well said. People who complain about vampire attacks need to understand that for the vast majority of Skyrim players it's not a shopping sim.

Jolly well said. People who complain about vampire attacks need to understand that for the vast majority of Skyrim players it's not a shopping sim.

It's not a survival horror either. We got Dragons already introducing an element of uncertainty. Adding vampire attacks (that, for certain users happen too frequently) is not making the game any better but, rather, worse.

At this point we could add a plague that kills 25% of the population randomly. I mean, plagues were common in medieval times; would this aspect make Skyrim more "real"? Possibly. Would it make more fun? I don't think so.