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If a game goes out of its way to give you tools that can break it, then by default that game is easy. "Just don't use it" is not an argument.
There's a difference between grinding until you're level 100 to sweep the game and your starter being a level 100 Mewtwo. One of those is something completely optional and tedious that you decided to do anyway to break the game, the other is you being given a tool that can break the game, most likely expected for you to use.
Handicapping yourself doesn't change what the base game actually is, if 'handicap yourself' is an arguement then theoretically no game is easy.
