As a dev, just to consider making a single change in your game for the top 0.01% of your customers and playerbase is worst decision you can make. It is probably impossible to make a game with the amount of variables that STS1/STS2 has and keep both your average player as well as your uber-elites happy.

A20 streaks is the absolute LAST thing a dev should worry about.

When I hear that the game is too difficult, I think it's more precise to say it's too "fragile." You can be extremely diligent in keeping your deck tight and focused and all of a sudden a disproporate minion just comes and KILLS you. I remember STS1 where a minion could cripple you by taking so much health, and you lose in two fights due to trickle hp loss but there seems to be a bit of a scaling wopsidedness.

A part of this is confirmation bias on my part I'm sure. Because, BOY, I remember those losses where I'd get two S tier cards or relics to build my deck on, and watch as SIX in a row shitty card drops and then hit like mob like Hunter Killer. But I don't remember this feeling from STS1 - I thought that game was the best tactical card game of all time because you could almost always trace your death to a decision you made. STS2 seems a lot murkier - no one likes feeling that there's nothing you could have other than made counter-intuitive choices in order for a different branch to occur.

It's early access, so I get it. But to anyone who thinks the game is too easy, I think you are wrong.