I wish I knew the smithing skill was so bad. I mean come on, you got no armor degradation despite having work benches. You can only improve and make armor and that's the skill tree. The look of the armor doesnt even change when you upgrade it. This isnt really a huge deal though since this was never in the series before, but still who doesn't like customization. Also the fact that no one can improve armor for you. Why?! It doesn't make any sense and I cant think of a reason why not to have this.

Just make Legendary improvements only available to master smiths and make it cost a boatload of money. While any lesser smith can improve your armor a bit but not as good as better smiths.