You really following me around to just assert that your bad take is "objectively" right over and over again?

No one cares what “you” want, unless “you” perfectly describe the purchasing power of 100k potential customers.

This is a common complaint, and its what the folks like you are bitching about; the idea that anyone would dare have criticisms that you dont agree with.

Oh, and to answer the question you think is a gacha - I’d rather the team spend every second making the game they want to then to spare even one developers afternoon to add “difficulty settings” - that employee could have been doing something actually useful to the game and its target audience.

This isn't an answer at all, as expected from you given that the stipulations are that this is separate to the games creation. The fact you can't answer really goes to show that it is indeed just useless gatekeeping. That you follow me around for this really goes to show how toxic your mentality is.

The only one posed in the question this spawns from??

Lets say they keep everything as it is right now, like they literally have the games they already have and add some difficulty options like less annoying backtracking. How does this “ruin” your experience?

It’s literally the whole deal

If this were true, and you weren't just supporting useless gatekeeping, then removing it would result in a non working game.

This is a preference you have, to specifically eliminate choice for other people.