Difficulty of normal content.

[LilimoLimomo]

With respect, at the time this was posted, these fights had been out for less than 24 hours. The reason half your party is dead is because like you, they are still learning the fight. It's still very much early days where everyone is learning, and hence there's going to be significantly more failure than there will be in less than a week when 60% of the players will know the fights up and down and be able to carry any stragglers to victory.

As someone whose favorite content is normal raids, what I've seen so far seems easier than the previous expansion's equivalent, Pandemonium. Panda 1 was a cakewalk, and then Panda 2 over-corrected with a pretty large difficulty spike. In comparison, Honey B. Lovely seems like a simpler fight, more comparable to Omega 2 and Eden 2 (we don't talk about Alexander 2).

To be clear, that doesn't mean Honey B. Lovely is a cakewalk; like all good fights, there are significant opportunities for failure. But as I said before, folks are still learning; as I write this, barely 24 hours have passed since this content was released. So hang in there and focus on learning; that's what others will be doing, to the extent that after a few weeks having even a single wipe will be the exception to the norm.