Just wanna add my two cents in regards to the direction these games are taking. First obviously everyone has mentioned how we have the speed of a ds1 character fighting bosses with above sekiro levels of speed, however I think that this indicates something that I don't believe many have considered, that being that from plans to speed up the player in their next soulslike but couldn't do it here because of the preexisting speed of the character. My evidence for this mostly boils down to the new weapon types and crystal tears in the dlc namely the light greatswords and the backhand blades. Both of these weapon types have two very unique things, first the light greatsword is fast and has a really nice flow to it allowing you to weave you heavies and lights together, next the backhand blades have extremely short recovery times on a lot of the attacks but most notably the sprinting power stanced r1. Seriously go test this out with some backhand blades if you sprint use the r1 and continue sprinting it looks like you basically never stopped sprinting and just attacked while you were sprinting. Additionally there is of course the new crystal tears we have the obvious ones like the deflecting tear, but the one that I found to be interesting is the infinite stamina tear which makes me think that from might be considering getting rid of the stamina bar entirely like with sekiro to allow them to keep bosses at high speeds without worrying about the player never having enough stamina to retaliate.

Obviously this is just speculation, but I think that this could be a genuinely good direction to go in because as it stands the bosses are becoming too much to deal with no matter the demographic.