Posting the text of the digest here (italics mine):
Having multiple difficulty levels would've been ideal; unfortunately, with the time constraints that we had, we lacked the development resources to design and debug two separate difficulties in addition to creating large-scale battle content like Forked Tower from the ground up. Furthermore, we believe the difficulty level overshot what players were expecting before release.

We initially anticipated that, as strategies developed, those who cleared the dungeon would be able to assist others with their clears. But entry method-related complications have hindered groups from going back for multiple clears; as a result, the overall situation has yet to reach the state of affairs that we originally envisioned.

Although we couldn't do it for Forked Tower, we've started discussing the possibility of designing Normal and Savage versions of the next large-scale dungeon. We appreciate the feedback that you've shared with us so far and will do our best to make our next updates as enjoyable as possible.
The wording here leads me to believe it’s as I feared… not only was this another “oops it’s Savage” like CAR, the way they said Forked Tower, without specifying Blood or Magic, sounds like the “next large-scale dungeon” is whatever they do for the next field op. So we’ll have not one, but two, BA style raids and no normal dungeon instances at all for Occult Crescent.

So in other words, the content casuals were looking forward to all this time is capping off each zone with a Savage level dungeon.

I still think this is wrong, and while I know it would take time and resources, both versions of Forked Tower should have a Normal mode. While I personally will try to find a discord group to get me through it (eventually because of the unnecessary hassle of having to do so), I will continue to campaign for the addition of Normal modes, and I will continue to hold a great deal of disappointment and resentment about having to do it this way. And as someone who initially loved the zone, it’s really killing my motivation to keep going.

At the very least, they could allow for some way for the field notes, TT card and Sanguinite to be obtainable outside the Tower, since everyone has decided the support fate is too time-consuming to deal with.