Realistically it depends what you mean by ‘difficult’. For any change you make for a seemingly good reason, there’ll be someone telling you that it’s a chump move to make the game easier or for casual gamers who can’t put the time in to play properly. When Oblivion introduced fast travel, a lot of the Elder Scrolls community went apeshit over ‘dumbing down the gameplay’ because you no longer had to spend time going from place to place. Clearly Bethesda thought it was a good idea though and put it in all their subsequent games.