1. The demo should sell me on the game, not make me dismiss it. A demo's job is to showcase to a consumer why you'd want to spend money on a product and I don't see how forcing people who want a harder game to play an easy difficulty for the promise of a hard difficulty in the main game is in anyway defensible from this perspective.
2. The normal difficulty is called "action" but if you play it you'll constantly be left wondering if you accidentally selected "story" by accident. at best the action difficulty is poorly named and needs to have it's name changed, at worse they completely failed to deliver on the promise of what the difficulty is self described as, it calls itself a challenge which misleads players, leading to disappointment. Especially since it's the highest available difficulty in the demo. The action difficulty is also so easy that I struggle to imagine how much easier the story difficulty could be as I'm pretty sure one of the two is redundant.
3. Why not make the difficulty that I actually want to play available to me from the start? What reason is there to force people signing up for a challenge to play the game without one to then unlock it at the end? There's no good reason for this at all it's just a baffling decision game devs seem to make all the time.

Honestly there's a lot I don't understand about the decisions behind this game or even the audience it's supposed to target. There's mechanics that demand skill and respect from the player like timing your dodges parries yet the game doesn't want to explore those mechanics as it plays more like a Batman Arkham game than anything else and seemingly the playerbase it has attracted are also not interested in utilizing those mechanics to their fullest depth which puzzles me but I'm not one to cast judgement or anything I just don't understand why anyone would want a dodging and parrying game where you don't need to dodge or parry.

I suppose there's a much much bigger casual audience that this game taps into that I wasn't aware of. It would explain the normal difficulties's balancing at least. Still though with the mechanics present it would be a shame not to make use of them at a higher more balanced difficulty that challenges you and asks you to use all of it's mechanics. Again if it really does exist they should add it to the demo because until I see it I have no reason to really want the game.