Why encounters with a difficulty slope are bad

[KitanaiKoneko]

I prefer soft enrages, myself. With a soft enrage, you can sometimes juuuuuust squeak in a victory, the healers struggling to keep people standing and everyone pouring everything they can onto the boss in a last desperate burst. It feels so good when you win like that! With a hard enrage though, the boss just says: lol no and wipes your entire party with one fell swoop. It's boring. :|

But see I prefer hard enrages for the same reason-finally killing Nael with <1s left on megaflare is an amazing feeling.

Or more recently look at Lucretia's T13 kill and how close they cut it.