Originally posted by bradams:

Its all a slowdown thing. There really isn't a ton of content there, but if they make every action take 10x as long due to stamina taking forever to recharge, then the game seems, well, 10x longer.

Like a more clever in-game version of that thing Anthem did that makes you wait 24 hours between quests so it takes you more than 1 day to beat the whole thing.

exactly this. it's not about being hard or easy. that's delusion. it's hard to see someone telling bitter truth these days.

waiting 1 minute to hit a rock has nothing to do with challenging/hardmode.