I played as a mage with focus on conjuration, destruction, heavy armor, smithing, enchanting. Struggled to keep magicka potions stocked until i maxed enchanting and made a full suit of daedric armor with various boosts and fortify destruction x100. I noticed how easy of a time I was having, so I increased difficulty to master. Got to the where enemies constantly respawn and hung out in the courtyard blasting enemies. A friend came over and I went to exit out and she said, "Leave it on, it's cool." So I casually blew up a few dozen soldiers, and stopped playing for a few seconds, and she says, "Don't you want to pause it?" The enemies were hacking away and minimally injuring me, so I said no. She reached for the mouse and started fireballing the badguys and running around (I use M2 to move forward), and spammed the hell out of enemies for 15 minutes or so having never played a PC mouse look and fire kind of game. I used the keyboard to heal during that time, true, but someone who'd never played a live action pc game can come in to skyrim and mouse click one handed firballs at enemies on master at a theoretically climactic time in a quest finale. Destruction's not underpowered as long as you don't pay for it...

You exploited a game mechanic to increase your skill levels and are complaining that the game is broken. You're not going to get too much support here. The game allows you to play... and you can break it. That doesn't mean it's a broken game.

Not a complaint, more a thought on the claims that destruction gets lambasted.

You broke it. Period