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The problem with this idea is that it assumes everyone has the exact same capabilities. The game might be completely off the table for some players and I think that would be a real shame because it's an excellent game.
It doesn't assume everyone has the same capabilities. If you aren't capable of beating a boss in er, you find more areas to explore, more sidequests to do and over level yourself and your weapons. It's going to be harder, albeit more rewarding. Other fs games are different and don't have the same fail to progress model and with those it becomes a lot harder if you don't have the capabilities.
There are people that wouldn't be able to beat it even if they took advantage of all those things. It also means you get two different experiences depending on your abilities. One of them can be a well paced challenging game and the other is a grindy slog that always feels unfair.
There are some people who can't beat Celeste, what's your point? Also I wouldn't call exploration and finding minibosses grinding. If that's what grinding means to you than maybe the game just might not be made for you.
The first point is fair, you can't reasonably expect any one game to be beatable by every single person. But the resistance from the devs seems more philosophical than pragmatic. Difficulty options are often requested, and to their credit it's something the developers considered a lot more with Elden Ring, why they won't just add some optional difficulty settings seems bizarre.
As for grinding, no, that's not what I consider grinding. But you definitely can hit a wall in Elden Ring where you've done all the content you can find but still can't progress anywhere. And running around the map is only interesting for so long. Go to youtube, there's plenty of 'best farming location' videos. Elden Ring can be grindy if you just don't meet their arbitrary skill level.
celeste still attempts to have accessibility options and they have an immense positive impact ffs
it's a literal slippery slope argument to make a conflation that "allow more people to play a game" = "abandon everything to allow EVERYONE EVER BORN to play a game"