The Lessons Not Learned.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I've never agreed with a statement more than this. You can't please all of the people all of the time.

Over the years the goal post shifted. You can see it with Elden Ring earlier this year(man this year when by fast) with people asking for easy modes in a souls game or in contrast people asking for a harder Pokémon game. Everyone these days want to be able to play any game and that game cater to them.

I mean, Pokemon did have a hard mode once, in Black and White 2. Except you needed to find someone who'd already beaten the Champion in Black 2 (beating White 2 unlocked Easy Mode instead), then get them to transfer an unlock key, then start a new file with it. It was a stupidly convoluted way to do it, even more so now that BW2 are several console generations behind. So people are mostly just asking for that to come back, but as an option at game start, rather than some messy multiple unlock.