The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process.
I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.
I've bounced off some fights way more than that. It's not even about not getting what to do, my concentration just dies and I also get greedy (or in the case of margit in elden ring was insanely underleveled on top of that). Playing claire obscure on the highest difficulty while ignoring defense isn't very different in terms of dodging difficulty, but since I couldn't really get greedy and my brain can go off on a journey on my own turn it was pretty smooth and much less frustrating for me.
I do agree souls games aren't super difficult, but they are unforgiving and if concentration isn't your strong suit that will fuck you relentlessly. I still enjoy them personally though I've never completed one, there's always some area that just annoys me too much to bother after a bit.