But how does having an easier difficulty available prevent you or anyone else from just playing on the default "intended" difficulty? Why does the fact of other people having more options available to them lessen anyone's enjoyment? That's the argument Jim is making. If it's because those people would be unable to resist the temptation to use that easier mode, then that sounds like a problem with them and their own impulse control.

FWIW I think From's games are great as is and the lack of an easy mode is a deliberate choice on their part, especially 6 games into this "series." But if they WERE to add an easy mode or just more ways to modulate the difficulty that went beyond summoning help, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest and I'd still just play the game my way.