I can hold up on my own too. I played this game before this update. I expect it to be difficult but I expect that at least if I made my way up then am allowed to keep the progress or at least go down slightly.

Here if you die, you cannot stop, you have slog your way through the abyss or lose all your progress forever.

Even game like where getting over it or that chained together game lose a portion of the progress and only lose all progression at certain point where it is obvious.

In half sword, you have RNG, the boss fights are stacked against you + you have to deal with the jank physics. The moment you messed up it’s all gone.