Adding a difficulty slider is easy, doesn’t take much time, doesn’t change much about the experience, and allows more people to enjoy your media.

So leaving it out is lazy game development.

Niche audiences is fine, gatekeeping isn’t.

Try Nier Automata

You can install chips in your brain that automates gameplay features. Like getting your turret to shoot automatically, making you melee attack automatically when you are in range, dodge automatically, …

You can really customize your difficulty to the point that the game basically plays itself.

The only downside is that you miss out on using other cooler chip abilities.

He didn’t expel all Russians, just the ones working for sanctioned Russian companies.

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AnIv3IogdUsebImO6i

Would look nice as an icon