Ever since they changed the combat and gave skeletons a good buff, the game has actually been hard. I've always played on hard mode ever since we were able to just spam click to kill anything in seconds. Nothing ever posed a real threat besides lava, the void, and the wither if you were unprepared. Now that I started a fresh new 1.10 survival world, the game has been so much better. Being able to actually die by skeletons and hordes of zombies is thrilling. I'm so happy with the changes and they were in the right direction for survival players.