Steel golems have always been the early/midgame badass "boss." Sure you are not doomed etc?
as far as the ui goes:
Ctrl-n m
Haven't fired up adom in a week or so and apparently there has been an update, so dunno if that still works. I can't play without the classic"" setup from years and years and years back, but that's obviously because that's what I'm used to using etc etc.