Exalted: something broken, or just different power level?

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

The charm trees are bloated, non-intuitive, and hard to remember, which leads to NPCs being nearly unplayable.

Could this be because the unstated intent of the designers is that the GM should use a few highly detailed NPCs, as foes for the PCs, rather than a large amount of vaguely defined "mooks"?