Is Islam a religion of moderation and ease?

Religion, in principle, came to alleviate many of the restrictions that people impose on themselves. In the pre-Islamic era of ignorance, for instance, abominable practices became widespread like burying girls alive, permitting certain types of food only for men and making them prohibited for women, depriving women of inheritance, eating carrion, committing adultery, consuming intoxicants, devouring the orphan's property, consuming usury among other evil acts.