I am surprised by your post and wonder if it is just a random thing. I just finished a complete game (800+ turns)  of 1.19 and right from turn 10 or so, I was getting bum rushed by a steady stream of bandits, spiders, wolfs, crazed Walmart associates, etc. What world setting were you using?

In the game I just played there were plenty of resources but they were almost all located near the other factions' settlements. Many of them had three to five resources next to them. I believe Kael mentioned that the designers are working on a better distribution algorithm for resources in 1.2

I agree resources are more common now but I'm not seeing any wolves, bears or bandits accept on quests.Maybe it's because I'm playing at very low difficult.

Ive only played 20 turns and seen bandits, spiders, and darkling warriros.

Brad toned down the wandering monsters because they were getting too strong in the early game.  I think it was overdone some.

Skaths on turn 100 is fine.  The problem was getting skaths on turn 10 previously.