>making players think they're skilled at a game
Above. It doesn’t matter what’s “better game design”. The only thing that matters is if it sells and the player is happy. Helldivers 2 is proof of this. Players got mad and started leaving the game when devs kept making the game harder. So, devs made the game easier and now players started coming back more than ever because they think they’re skilled for beating missions on super helldive