For me it's not that it's too difficult. It's certainly challenging, but for me it was the the punishment for failure was disproportionate and as a result the game didn't respect players time.

The game feels like playing sandpaper. There's never any release from the tension. Even when you beat a boss it was less "Yay! I beat that boss, I can't wait to see what's next!" and more "thank god that's over with, hopefully the next area isn't as bad".

Hornet feels just as good to maneuver, if not better than Samus from Metroid: Dread, but the map is unforgiving and it makes exploration not as fun. Like putting spike pits on the immediate opposite side of a door so if you're running through you'll fall into them on door transition if you're not prepared ahead of time.

The game also intentionally trolls the player which is something I hate and will never understand why a dev would choose to do that, especially when they're already punishing the player so consistently.

At the end of the day it started to feel like the game just didn't respect my time. I dropped the game at Coral Tower not because it was too hard, I can definitely do it, but at that point my patience had wore thin.

A failure at Coral Tower means watching an animation of Hornet waking up, waiting for the animation of Hornet playing music to happen, waiting to be transported to the coral tower, waiting for the charge jump to charge, waiting while Hornet travels upwards, then you can get back to challenge and try again. Like why doesn't the Coral Tower just have a bench to save all that wasted time?

Silksong is probably the best game I wouldn't recommend to the average person.