Question on encounter design.

[EaMett]

Difficulty is still average, perhaps overall easier. E8S stands out as being one of the harder fights we've had in a while but that was mostly for early clears due to the dps check and it's a definite outlier in the 8 fights we have so far. Third floors used to be difficult but are jokes right now in comparison to last expansion.
Alexander was average for an ultimate.

Healers had their skill set gutted and nothing to show for it. I think E8S is the only fight this tier that'll push you to gcd heal, kinda sad.
Aggro is no longer something you need to manage either. Everything has been simplified so much and I'm not even sure it's achieved the purpose of getting lower tiered players into raiding. Wonder how that debrief is going at SE currently.