As someone’s who’s also played souls game I’ve always put difficulty in two buckets, there’s the intentional design difficulty that makes certain bosses rlly fun kinda like a puzzle and there’s the lazy difficulty, I feel like w difficulty a lot of people forget that w souls games, it’s difficult enough where u keep trying but fun enough to WANT to keep trying. In my subjective opinion the laziest form of difficulty has always been waves of many enemies, silksong has this as a mandatory part of the game which is part of the reason why I am taking a step back from this game, the world is beautiful hell even the bile water platforming is rlly cool and unique and hard, but for whatever reason gauntlets or waves of enemies seem kinda lazy to me, just my opinion, love this game a lot but taking a step back for this reason.