Just bumping this up so that this stays close to the front page.

Anyways, I find it how they reworded it in the digest compared to how it was in the live letter. The translation from the reddit discord was "You’re probably comparing the raid as it is now to what you had in Patch 5.4 (Eden’s Promise) but you have to remember that in 6.0 we added new jobs and we’re still balancing things and give people a chance to clear if they possibly can and from there we’ll raise the challenge level in part 2 and 3 of Pandaemonium. I think even at that point if you’re still unsatisfied thinking “healing is too easy”, definitely try the Ultimate content and suffer."

Then look at it in the live letter digest "
A: We hold back on the difficulty of the initial Savage raids of each expansion to allow more people to clear, which goes for Asphodelos as well.

I imagine a lot of comparisons are being drawn between the current encounters and the Savage encounters added in Patch 5.4, but the difficulty will be gradually increased as players get more comfortable with their jobs again. But should you yearn for more, please look forward to Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate)!