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They exist, but aren't as popular as the ones that turn you into a god.
It's the reason that From Soft's games don't sell as well as CoD, most normies don't play games for the difficulty.
My brother in law uses every cheat, exploit, and built in easy mode option he can. Does the game include an item obviously intended for small children that trivializes the entire game? If so, you can bet he's using it.
Then, after beating the game, he complains that it was too easy and not fun.
I just don't get it.
If I use a mod to tweak difficulty, it's usually to change a bullshit challenge to a reasonable challenge. There's so much BS in games that make it harder, but in a dumbass way. Like, you do hardly any damage but the boss can one-shot you. So I would mod it where now you aren't one-shotting the boss, but you're also not using a super soaker against a demigod. That's not a fun challenge, that's just lazy game design. Literal brute force over making the NPC behavior more clever and complex.
It's understandable. That statement (which I can believe) reminds me cheating devices like the action replay or gameshark were popular for similar reasons (I remember using Action replay to get illegal pokemon in black and white), though they've been falling by the wayside as consoles have gotten more resilient to such devices. It's a marginal part of the charm of bygone generations, particularly the DS era.
Remember game genie in the early 90s?
The pokemon thing was more because fuck you I'm not buying your game twice and I'm the only person I know that plays Pokémon.
Reminds me of when I played an shmup a while back and I have to use cheat engine to make the game harder than "impossible" difficulty as I wanted slightly more challenge than max without the game turning fucky. So I made the game 1 life, no checkpoints but infinite continues. You either perfect no miss the entire stage or start the whole stage over.