I thought even if Silksong was technically better than Hollow Knight in every way, I'd never like it as much because it wouldn't live up to moments like discovering the city of tears for the first time or getting lost in deepnest because I just don't really enjoy video games the way I did 8 years ago, but discovering the citadel and hearing the music kick in after Lace confronts you, and laughs at the idea you could kill a god after watching you make it up to the citadel by the skin of your teeth just blew everything in HK out of the water for me. Seeing all the seething about the games difficulty just lends to the illusion you're really on some grand climb to the top of the world to kill god, Team Cherry could've avoided all of the backlash and still got all of the praise if they had just made it easier but they didn't, I think that's true artistic integrity. This is one of the best video games I've ever played
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTicXQYw2ts