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Sometimes they just look for a reason to cut the salary or make you more overtime-compliant, or something else. Basically a tool to squeeze out more.

The routine is to take you but make you feel like they do you a favor by taking you with less exp than it was originally stated.

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Yes, you are right, that might be a reason. But work experience is a huge factor in infrastructure engineering. From my perspective it is what counts the most. Companies usually would like see that a candidate already worked on a similar stack, so that she/he won't make stupid beginner mistakes on your payroll and potentially ruining your business.

Excellent point, that definitely happened to me in my first job.

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