Add an easy mode and he won’t have to settle for watching someone else have fun, friendo. And the good news is that you don’t lose anything in the process either.

If a game wants to sell it needs an audience. Alienating more than half the audience is dumb and bad business.

It’s an exclusive club for those with nothing better to do. The git gud crowd is an excess of machismo and immaturity.

So yes, your enjoyment of *this* game is contingent on other people not being able to enjoy the game. Even if you never play the easier difficulty offered, the knowledge that someone else out there, somewhere, has played it and possibly even enjoyed it makes your experience worse...somehow.

Not everyone plays games for the same reason (i.e. you might play for the difficulty where others do for the story/atmosphere). And beyond that, an easy mode doesn’t diminish your playthrough. “it’s good because it’s hard” can be said about most games with their difficulty turned up, if that’s your thing. Beyond that…