If the game is too hard, use a cheat engine. But if you complain "wah wah this is too hard, add an easy mode", you are just a cry baby. When a game is too easy, players find additionnal challenges. JRPG are good examples.

I'm of the opinion that not every game is for everybody. Nor should it be. That is how you get a watered down games industry. We live in a time where we have more games than we can reasonably be expect to play. If one game is too hard (or too easy, or too boring), move on. There are a dozen or more waiting to take its place in your collection.

Variety is vital. Don't compromise that by demanding that every game be for everybody.

I've never come across a game that was legitimately too hard. Not for me, and not for anybody decent at games. Dark Souls has a multiplayer function to help you get past bosses. Even if you don't have access to multiplayer, just grind until you are overleveled enough to face the boss. Same goes for Sekiro. 

Most games that are deemed hard are simply asking a little more competence from their players. Everytime I've seen somebody claim a game is too hard, they didn't fully grasp all the gameplay concepts. 

In Sekiro you need to know that an orange spark means you need to block next. A yellow spark means you are free to counterattack. 

In Ninja Gaiden you should know which attacks to block, which attacks to dodge, and how to do super moves via absorbing essence. 

Enter the Gungeon demands you understand how to dodgeroll, and how to unlock more NPCs in the main area. 

You have to kill his two dogs asap. And yeah, he will absolutely shred you if you don't. Even I summon two Sunbros for dealing with him and his hounds. 

Difficult games are more life like. Playing a game on hardest mode is so intense and is an adrenaline rush.

Yes we are still at the same point where Souls player really don't want the game to have easier option so they can keep to themselves "clearing the game".
And will fully ignore that what is considered difficult to his ability can be really tonned down to another person and would be about as difficult to that person as it is for you without tonning down.
I know that if I kept forcing myself in Nioh I would finish it, I cleared like 3 worlds of the game, but it is so boring, tedious and slow to evolve and do decent damage that I simply stopped playing. While God of War I liked the game so much that even dying much more than on Nioh (but keeping my items and evolution in a better way) I was able to platinum it on very hard, and Spider Man and RDR were easy enough to clear both on hardest dying just a couple times. Uncharted is a game where the hardest difficult are also enjoyable and they still offer very easy options that doesn't prevent me from enjoying all the other options.
But I can understand people that would play the easier options and then tarnish the game for it not being great.
Still the problem with Souls game is the monotonous and long battle with rolling all over, parrying, etc coupled with the stamina bar, I have zero enjoyment on that.

Well sometimes that is due to using mechanics that no one but that public likes =p

People play games for lots of different reasons on different time schedules. Some like to binge play a game, some will only play half an hour a week. Some play to relax, enjoy a good story, get immersed in the world, make their own story while exploring, get a good challenge, get scared, get that adrenaline rush, play for competition, or just play to keep their hands busy.

Not everyone has the same time to put enough effort in certain games and not everyone has the same experience or affinity with games and their rules and timing. It also changes as you get older. I certainly don't have the same reflexes and finger dexterity anymore as 30 years ago. Nor the time.

Accessibility is a responsibility for developers. But if they only want to cater to those that have 60+ hours to spend on getting good, then that's their choice. Extra checkpoints and on the fly to adjust difficulty levels, (timing windows/dmg/health), even a boss skip option doesn't alter the contents of a game. It only encourages people to try another play through. When a game can have NG+ and NG++, it can also have NG- and NG--. The excuse that it's only good at the intended difficulty level is just that, an excuse for not trying harder.

For me that is almost like giving carte blanché to devs and saying "you don't need to improve, anyone complaining is an ignorant peasant".

Sure some games will be unaccessible to some people, but when majority can't really enjoy the game that is a different issue.

On the too easy... Mario games usually start very easy and you are learning concepts while difficult keep increasing, that phillosophy of easy to learn hard to master. And for general games that people like to say "when I was young games were harder", you can play today games as if you were on the 80s. If you die once reset and start again, don't pick all ammo, finish that RPG with only 40% of max level, etc.

That is a good example, and I hope FFVIIR make it a good case where both turn based and action are plenty good so more games can use more than one mechanic.

Another problem besides people liking almost everything on the game except dying all the time and having to replay all, or grind for the fuck sake to correct the step in difficult, is that it could be like 10x more people than what currently like the game as is but the ones that like it don't accept some improvements for those people to enjoy the game because they would lose the status he attained by mastering that game.

I love the fact that I platined GoW on Give me God of War, and don't feel any less valued because several people have done it on the Give me a Story (well some couldn't even finish the game on this difficult, and that was really easy =p).

Like Resident Evil, I don't like the fact that you basically have to get S+ on the most difficult setting to enable the best cheat weapons, people that can do that don't need the cheat weapons. Just disable the trophies adequately (if at all) and allow people to decide if they want to use those weapons (they rather do knife only or no heal runs). Lock clothes and lore as achievements for finishing on the hardest difficulties with good grade.

a easy difficulty would totally destroy every from software game for me. I know it seems like a good idea to just add a easy mode for people who needs it and keep the base game the same. but that wouldn't work for me and propably for many. if I stuck too much in a game, because it's too hard, I always look for an easy way out, I just can't help it, if dark souls would have that difficulty, I would use it and miss the true dark souls experience which only works through suffering.