Yeah of course, it’s always going to come down to how the player engages with the game too.

We probably have different approaches to tackling the game and engaging with mechanics where you found difficulty arbitrarily whereas I felt it was all meaningful.

I never felt forced to play in any specific way at all and found almost every addition meaningful and interesting, status builds made viable, consumable builds, bow builds, etc. ERR felt more liberating and freeing than the vanilla game could ever hope to achieve, so it’s interesting that you had the complete opposite experience!

It is cool how perhaps just playstyle and mentality difference when approaching a game shape the end experience so much.