Meh... the problem is that when OOO tries to make things difficult its the lazy unfair kind of difficult. What do i mean by this? well it would probably be something along the lines of: "OMGZILLIONSOFMONSTERSINSIDETINYAREASFILLEDWITHTRAPSTHATHAVEOMGDAMAGEOVER9000OLOLOLOLUMADBRO" instead of adding something that is legitimately difficult its like they are just tossing whatever they can into a single room, it doesn't even work either, players have many, MANY ways of controling large groups of monsters with a variety of weapons, like a good ol' shiver, an electron bomb, most brandishes, venom veiler, etc etc.

I'd like it if, for example, OOO would buff defenses so they can become relevant and the game wouldn't be just about about who can whack their sword harder and faster... i mean seriously, it takes very little for a player to kill a monster, and same way goes to monsters, you take about 4 hits from most regular monsters then you're down, the only difference is that most players can easily block/dodge monster's attacks if they have a bit of skill and know their patterns of attack.
With a proper fully defensive set you could at best take one or two more hits at the cost of losing your ability to 1 shot stuff with that shiny brandish/blitz, wich is just ridiculous and pointless.

If monsters would actually pose a more considerable threat to knights, say, being tougher and smarter or just getting a bit better at actually damaging you instead of just swarming lots of them hoping that it somehow adds some difficutly for the veteran players, just add some real difficutly that is fair both for monsters (GREMLINS HAVE FEELINGS TOO YOU KNOW) and players, it would also make the game much more enjoyable, players get tired easily when all they have to do is brandish charge the crap out of every living thing. It would fix some problems with deffensive armors on the way too wich is just friggin great.

But yeah, doing a change like that would require devs to make a new AI and rework the way that damage works, theres alot of stuff to have in mind, and in the end they will not be able to sell it to us in some Boxes for 5 bucks each.

Unless...

new DLC content! "THE CORE DEPTHS" Where everything is just like the normal clockworks but balanced.
there's new enemies, the strangers, they were behind everything, the swarm is revealed to be controlled by the gremlins who were trying to destroy the evil strangers and free cradle from their horrible and never visible hands. vanaduke is replaced by Basil, who reveals his true form and it inflicts every status on the game with its mace, yes he would sleep you too, along with a new status called "Stranger doom" wich makes you die after 60 seconds.