There are no arguments against easy mode...

you've just described every rogue and roguelike game ever

It should either be called "Game Journalist Mode" or "Soyboy".

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Sure, but "easy mode" shouldn't be "press X to do everything", "skip boss battles" or "no consequence for your mistakes".
I am not a "hurr durr git gud" fag but man that video of that gaming journalists playing Cuphead's tutorial not being able to follow the on screen instruction was embarassing.
If you are that braindead then you should find some other hobby instead of asking game developers to lower the difficulty bar to monkey-tier level.

WHERE'S THE ARCHIVING ARCHIVE FAGGOT?

There are no arguments against no easy mode. The only people that oppose the lack of easy mode are 60IQ brainlets that want games to be for everyone!

I am reasonably sure you could teach a chimp to play a game effectively, so comparing game journalists to chimps is an insult to the lower primates.

Anyone got that pic of Valve changing a section of their game because one of their testers kept running in circles, or the one about Dishonored where the playtesters didn't go explore a part of the map because a guard told them they couldn't go upstairs?

Archive where?

dark souls isn't even hard, any singleplayer game that places emphasis on difficulty by lack of player knowledge and lack of giving the player any information at all is not "hard", it's "badly designed"