This writer seems awfully entitled. Yes, I think it's good to have difficulty options but I certainly don't believe it's "wrong" when the developers create something specific that they do not want to dilute. If the point of a game is to be difficult and challenging, and that's what the development team wished to hang their hat on, that's fine with me, even if I'm one of those excluded.
I just really, really hate to dictate terms to people who work in a creative medium and I can't help but respect them when they do what they want with their intellectual property even when they could make more money by going down a different route.








