Was there really a need to make leves harder?

[Reika]

So you're fine with the idea of soloing leves with a 5 star rank labeled "Legion"? You find nothing wrong with that? I absolutely welcome the challenge and it makes doing leves much more fun instead of soloing all of them myself with ease.

Well, in case you missed the memo of 1.18, leves are suspost to be solo. It was mentioned as such by Yoshida. It was more of a wonder why they didn't change the difficulty names to match their intended direction. It seems like they ended up changing their minds however.

I haven't done any leves yet, been doing other quest. gonna see how much harder they are myself.