Yea, I think times have changed in the age of apps and the desire for instant gratification where no one has the time to sit and grind out a game for hour and hours and potentially not make any real progress. People want to pick up a game play for 30 min or less at a time, make progress, and get rewarded for it. In game difficulty settings are nice to scale to a players ability, but the internet and in game help take a lot of that away. Not that much of that matters anyway, because many modern games are so littered with checkpoints that death is an inconvenience, not heartbreaking. When I was on my last life as a kid, it really made me sit there and think about each move and button push.