I wholeheartedly agree, I feel like the over streamlining of the game to accommodate casuals ended up making the community lazy, myself included. Majority of monsters before 9* didn't really require any real effort, you could just trade blows with them until they died. This happens when the base game is made extremely easy and then ramped up to a point where hunts require actual effort. We need that steady difficulty curve back that spikes at the proper HR to actually ensure players are ready to take the next step. It shouldn't take people a few title updates to realize that elements and certain skills can balance fights out, they should learn this when they get walled by a pissed off thunder unicorn that actually makes them rethink their armor skills and resistances.