I mean the Gameinformer preview writer's first and only FE is 3H, and yet they write in their preview that Engage is lacking in difficulty. This is Three Houses deceptive difficulty naming all over again.
Yeah, the difficulty renaming in the west kinda fucked Radiant Dawn, but this is basically the same problem, just in the opposite direction. Ideally, Intelligent Systems just implements 3 difficulties named easy -> normal -> hard and properly balance them so they actually fit their naming. Stop with the meme-y maddening difficulty and include a hard mode that actually feels player-tested.
Honestly, the reason why this is an issue to me is because I know quite a few people who were just slightly competent at SRPGs (but no experts), chose normal mode in 3H, waltzed through half the campaign and then stopped playing because the game was too easy to be fun & they didn't felt to restart the game in hard-mode because they were too far.