Yes it does. The overall encounter is already timed and you're losing a portion of that to the respawn process. They're saying that that price can be paid when playing with other players (which is easier) but when playing solo (which is harder) that price cannot be paid as a death means failing the encounter since there's no one to resurrect you and the mechanic the put in place to resurrect yourself at the cost of a Splicer Key ends the encounter and doesn't refund the offering the way Court of Orxy does. Everything about this makes it harder and they're asking for balance that makes an existing game mechanic feasible without other players, how is that easier?