Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
but if that's what the majority of the playerbase feels comfortable with, I'm afraid we all have no choice but to adapt to it.
We definitely do not have to adapt to it. And yet we do.

We don't have to adapt to simply having the bar set low and it being lowered because people will continue to be too lazy to meet already watered down challenges.
We DO have to adapt by improving. Players improve by being challenged, or through a self-motivated desire to be better, but if there's no reason or incentive to be better, both SE and players can neither gauge their improvement, nor offer proportional challenge/effort in the future.