Don't even get me started on how Awakening is the biggest Monkey's Paw in gaming history. Saving a series, but at what cost? I can go for hours on everything it caused to go wrong that originated in itself.

You speak of Casual mode ruining it, but I think Lunatic (and Maddening and whatever other name that give it) did. Because instead of just Regular Mode and Baby mode, we have the super mega hard mode that totally isn't designed to sell Grinding Map DLCs that is the real difficulty (so we can not put much effort into Hard/Normal with Classic not being a joke) and force you to only be able to min/max with the best small handful of characters to even be able to play.