As other comments say, the difficulty has been oversold. I don't know what your experiences with these games are, but there are lots of forgiving aspects to them that wouldn't be there if they just wanted to make the hardest games on the market. Here's a few:

- every death refills your main healing items, so you can't run out

- you keep all the items you collect before you die

- you can recover lost experience points/currency by returning to the place where you died

- you can summon NPC or online co-op partners when you need. This trivializes most bosses.

- other players can leave messages in the game. Lots of them are tricks, but it almost guarantees that you won't miss any important items.

- they're RPGs. If you don't have enough health or whatever, you can level up to correct that.

These games definitely punish you when you make a mistake, and sometimes they are just janky, but if you invest the time it all starts to make sense.

Unfortunately, I think it's their own marketing department that really pushed the difficulty angle, maybe they're trying to back out of that now that they're not an underdog.