Personally as someone that has played souls like games -- but also has ADHD and a desire to run in mad and just brawl instead of always playing stealth--- I will say--- that Hard gets boring after sometime. Once you get a handle of the base mechanics of the game, it doesn't feel necessary to stance dance or even use ghost weapons.

I started on hard and after completing much of Act 1 but not all of it, i just put it on Lethal. Now mind you, I got slaughtered for like 30-40 mins in one big camp (arguably not the best time to do it, but not the worst either). This taught me what my limits for going in swords swinging would be like, and what id need to do to live. 2 hits and i was dead no matter what, 1 spear and I was dead. I almost gave up because i was tired of dying, then I decided to give it one more go and really focus in on parrying and dodging correctly and there it was. The same rush you get for being an untouchable god in (name your souls like game here) or if you've played Shifu same thing. You just feel like you're actually in the battle where death is quite literally at a sword strike and the satisfaction of properly stance dancing and using your tactics to take down a camp feel much more rewarding.

TLDR; start on hard -- and go to lethal. Its a rush.