"Some have called this decision "woke," claiming that it will take away the challenge."
Okay, these are the kinds of people that have stepped too far out of line. I hope a Pinky maybe on power level of Ultra-Violence holding anime-styled abilities like their SAO: Fatal Bullet counterparts named the Hooligans find these wokes and bites their faces off and then Doomguy kicks them out of a office window, seriously.
No offense, but just like Leandro said here too "Nothing satisfies them". Good lord. I'm glad Martin is going to continue developing the game the way he sees fit and disagrees with those trolls. Some peeps are tired of extreme difficulty things, and a few games that were allowing sliders to change things yet still keep the difficulty settings close to their defaults is a new and nice change of pace without hampering trophies/achievements. I'd say it's a great change to add.