Comment by psychoslave
5 hours ago
That’s different difficulties.
Like comparing a climb and along run. Sure both require some physical abilities, but in the first case any error and the collapse mean dead end bringing progress to zero, while the second one you can rest on the side any time and still have the miles behind you accomplished.
It's externally mandated difficulties vs internally created ones. I think the latter should always be easier, because you can change the requirements.