I never had problems with difficulty of the game itself. However, time gated content which is available only during specific time with few mins entry is extremely bad design imo. The game forces you to chose between IRL and the game in order to progress and in the same time you still have to fight queue times and disconnects which happens a lot since last 2 weeks or so.
I dont understand why you chose to nerf difficulty of the content which wasnt even that difficult in the first place and keep extremely annoying time gated content in the same time.