I don’t understand how you say this.
The hardest part of sekiro was to stop tryin to play it like Dark Souls, specifically using the parry/posture system to its fullest effect.
In the DS games literally every single enemy is a potential deadly challenge. In Sekiro the stealth and grappling hook makes all the non-boss enemies easily beatable and a minor threat. There’s multiple bosses/mini-bosses that you can beat by just spamming the parry button. Others are easily beatable by running in circles. Only a few times throughout the games bosses did I really feel hopelessly challenged. In the DS games there’s certain sections of random grunts that gave me more problems than the hardest bosses in sekiro.
In dark souls (and bloodborne to a lesser extent) there were lots of different ways to approach every situation. Lots of different playstyles you can set your character up as and you dont really have to be a master at any style to beat any of the games. Strong magic users in dark souls literally make the game easy as fukk. Once you learn how to play one of the games then the rest become easy.
Sekiro isnt like that cause you're forced to learn one type of playstyle and you have to damn near perfect that playstyle to get through the game. There is no grinding levels to get stronger or trying out a new strategy that works for you, either learn how the game wants you to play or die.
I always go for a quick and powerful character build in dark souls, I put all my skill points into strength and stamina to where none of the regular enemies could fukk with me.
Sekiro forced me to change my playstyle and learn the flow of the game, it literally felt like my first time playing a souls game.
Regular encounters in sekiro are definitely easier if you choose to stealth your way through the game, but the bosses are much harder. Your forced to actually get up close and go head to head with most of the bosses in sekiro, while in dark souls and bloodborne, most bosses can be beaten by circle strafing around the bosses legs and attacking at the right moments.