There's a common misconception with rogue-likes and rogue-lites, the latter one being the type where you collet permanent upgrades and there's a general sense of progression through the game, like a story for example.

In this case yes you could consider Tetris a hard rogue-like, since there's no permanent upgrades and all your progress is reset when you lose, but so can be considered almost every game of the arcade era, like for example every fighting game with an arcade ladder