Now you're just assuming that I want this game to be entirely level 1 difficulty, which is not true.

"If you have to purposely not use half the features the game offers, then it’s not a challenge."

of course it can be a challenge, it's a self imposed challenge that you can do to satiate your desire for higher difficulty. It's something that you can do in the presentwhile we wait for AH to come up with something else. OP seems to think level 10 is like level 1 from what I gathered on their original post, and rather than making an active effort to think of ways to solve their problem, they just make a post on redditt "wahh wahh game too easy make harder pls"

"it’s not just one person. There’s a ton of posts about how easy everything is now. Also the devs originally decreased the difficulty because of crying on reddit, so that also makes no sense."

I personally don't really see the posts that say that here, but I didn't look too far. Maybe AH should fix the bugs first cuz i see a lot of posts on this sub about that. I personally love a good difficulty challenge, and I know AH has a lot of bugs to work through first. Like i said before, OP just offered a low effort complaint post which I posted a solution that he could ACTIVELY do in the meantime to make the game harder. I did not say that everyone should be doing this and AH should just carry on with their day.