God, yeah. The clearest indicator to me when difficulty is coming at the expense of the game is when I'm seeing most other players fight Malenia with only 1 of 2 builds (those who aren't doing a challenge run anyway). In that particular case maybe reducing the talisman effects to only +3.5% HP was just going to cause every player to give up whatever they were doing before and just play as Glintstone Tragoth Chungus or Rivers of Blood Radahn.