I'm playing it as well and enjoying it. Are resources scarce for anyone else? Both in terms of loot but gold ad food drops. I tend to get a lot of alchemy ingredients but I'm not putting any points into it and sell all ingredients that I find.
I think your setup will make a big difference, but I've been impressed with the balance of scarcity both ways I've played. I restarted from a level 11 combat-heavy party because I hadn't expected the utility skills to matter so much and felt I was missing a lot of the non-combat side of the game. In my current one I pumped lockpicking, pickpocket, lore, and foraging almost exclusively at the start. The foraging noticeably boosted both number and quality of drops - to the point where I'd actually overleveled it relative to my party and was getting stuff for lvl18 when I was lvl11 (but oddly never getting weapons). And pickpocket - with occasional shamefaced save scumming - gives you so much experience relative to everything else that you build more levels in town than in dungeons. But even with all that I was still short on gold through the swamp area since I had to pour it all into keeping combat skills leveled and barter was the one skill I opted not to put anything into.
Honestly, outside of the exploration, most of my fun in this game has come from party planning and management.
! I feel I can handle most fights with my archer pumped up and causing 30-40 hp damage and she almost never misses. She's the only one I still put archery points into.
