Concern for onboarding experience of new players

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By level 50, there's challenge enough, otherwise first time players wouldn't die in Titan HM like they still do to this day.

People dying to a 1-shot mechanic and implying "that's enough difficulty" is a strawman. It's misleading to say that a knockoff that occurs because you didn't pay attention kills you is equivalent to difficult. You know as well as I that Titan HM dies very quickly, and most of his abilities do little damage. Endwalker, again, has left early game balance in a bad place.