Ironman required for achievements sucks ass

I've got about 80 hours in ironman runs at this point and every single time without fail you encounter horrendous bugs or balance issues 10-30 hours into a run that just suck all fun out of the run. Sometimes, like when you play ironman Teutons, the very start of ironman runs are just awful. Some examples:

- austria run: was holy roman emperor, granted my heir Brandenburg via event, heir's heir left with him to the new court, johan for some fucking reason decided you aren't able to arrange marriages for anyone outside your court so i became unable to marry my heir's heir and my PU strategy was completely ruined

- (second) castille run: france decided to invade and full annex navarra + annex the entire northern half of aragon in 1350, england has already been exterminated, run completely ruined because i didn't hard focus down france ASAP before they completely stomped england out of existence on the continent in 3 months of the 1st phase of the "hundreds" year war (actually 1 year war)

- holland run: the eye of sauron (france) falls upon me in 1360, instantly evaporated from the map

I get that they want achievement integrity and to "earn" your achievements but there's so many crippling balance issues and glaring bugs at present that ironman runs are exhausting unless you just completely shut out all the bullshit and, if playing a minor nation, get lucky. Obviously the solution is to not play Ironman. But the orange color for ironman saves is way cooler, and I want to earn achievements, so I end up just thinking about starting a new Castille run then getting dissuaded remembering that Tunis now joins Morocco in its initial war, so I have to siege down all of Morocco for them to give me anything, and due to the absolutely fucking brain damaged implementation of malaria doing that will kill 30,000 Castillian soldiers with no battles, so I just don't.