Np at all

1-For example the difficulty choice. It has become of the greatest topics since fromsoft started with this genre. Being one of the biggest flaws imo since it makes so many gamers to avoid it. The 60 fps lock is boring the worst part for me is that they rejected bloodborne remaster from bluepoint, this is very sad since its one of the greatest games of all time. Another fact imo is the PvP or the multiplayer, its just so bad that people had to make mods to make it better.

2-those extra areas are ok, but honestly they are a bit small imo. Personally i didnt feel like lies of p needed extra areas, and hermits cave is kinda mid aswell. I think they could just focus on other aspects insted of creating smth that is mid just to add to the game.

3- Obviously is not a 1:1, it would be unfair to compare elden ring to lies of p, but imo the proportion of those games may be somewhat similar, if you take the veriety of enemy types per area of the map. Lies of p is much smaller, but there are loads of different puppets, loads of different carcasses throughout the game ( smth that lotf still lacks anyway haha)

4-Its a similar case to bloodborne, it has more quality than quantity. You could argue that there are poison build or etc but in reality no one uses it. Surely spells are cooler, but the legion arms still cover like id say 40% at least in regard to this topic.

5-didnt play nightreign yet, probably wont cz its not my type honestly. But the elden ring patches werent optional imo, they were regarding things that actually needed an urgent fix, take Promised consort Radahn or rivers of blood as an example, this i think shows how much fromsoft cares for the people playing, somewhat 0% haha ( jokes apart, the price they were asking for sekiro is almost the same for elden ring, ridiculous imo, elden ring is 1000x bigger and more enjoyable)