I hadn't touched his simulator stuff yet, cleared the grasslands and I just got under Junon and I'm only a tad overleveled. Didn't realize he gives you that much expRealized it’s really easy to over level in this game. Doing all the Chadley shyt makes the main story kinda trivial on normal difficulty.
I switch to dynamic and it seems a lot better. You feel stronger but not enough to just overwhelm everything.