Just HP stacking on enemies doesn't equate to an increase in difficulty

[CazzT]

What I'm basically getting from this, is people want to power through beginning expansion content as if we have last patch cycle power? We're supposed to feel weaker at the beginning of an expansion. Kind of the entire point of rpg growth through the new content.

I can' speak for others, but this is not what I'm asking for.
I just don't want "damage sponge" to be conflated with "more difficult". Because it's not more difficult. It's more tedious. I'm fine with lower content of a new expansion having higher HP/taking longer to kill when the expansion first drops. I just think it's disingenuous to call that "more difficult".