It is as a fact the star rating is not always truthful, but as Endaris stated and that I agree - it is true that the star rating can underrate how a difficulty actually is and we all know how Kaede by Hollow Wings works and that it is a great example of how much the system can be flawed aka sliders are harder to be followed than you think. Still, now as the star rating thingy is no longer existent, we are of course supposed to follow the rules said yet no one really cares how hard the difficulty comes out because no one has to really test it. Also, note that of course, as some maps are faster due to the high bpm being high bpm we are going to have a little bit more demanding normals but because of that the differences between the lowest difficulty (Normal that actually plays like a Hard even though it is full of sliders but the high bpm is obviously not helping) and the next difficulty (something that is supposed to be called Advanced but it actually plays like a regular Insane due to some small jumps and triples + once again the pace of the song) people are not going to make another difficulty in order to even the difference between the difficulties, they are just going to make the lowest difficulty harder than it already is because making it even harder isn't against the rules and who cares about the normals and easies and, indeedly, now the SR issue doesn't exist as it was only enforcing people to obey the numbers.
I mean, hello, does it really sound like a scenario taken out of nowhere and out of the very context? Again, at least people have attempted to create difficulties that were more bearable for the newer players and now people are going to put more and more and even more 1/2s as the rules don't really say "try to make your difficulty as easy to go as possible and try to not put too many hardcore patterns", the rules say something similar to "don't put too many 1/2 notes in a row" so now it basically means that in a 180bpm song I can make a 1/2 slider-circle-slider, a pause, repeat the section, and again, and again and again and sometimes use three circles in a row constantly mixed with slider-circle-slider with most of the notes being circles only. And no one will even bother making more 1/1 or longer breaks if there won't be a huge backlash from the community and as the time passes people will make even harder maps because why not, it's not that hard. And now I have a feeling that people saying that the star rating is not the most valuable quantity are more likely to think of the rule being irrelevant as they don't think of what the easiest difficulty should look like but what the spread between two difficulties is supposed to be between a Normal and a Hard yet the Normal still being a regular Normal and not the easiest in the set. I still haven't seen anyone giving me any other answer for my issue than "this is how it works" and I would like to get a more comprehensible statement.
And as long as I can understand the fact that I should have brought the star rating thingy earlier it is not too late to talk about it now as we are clarifying what the standard Normal difficulty means, so it's more of "it's high time I did something" instead of "invalid, stop your mere mumble Krfawy". It is very important to mention the fact that the star rating used to have some values, back in the beginnings of 2015 people would still even recommend to map easies and normals that were closer to 1.50* values and not the ones that are closer to 2.50* In these days we are facing the latter scenario. Again, the SR is not the most objective factor yet it does have a value and we can agree that years ago difficulties were at least suppoed to be as easy as possible even if that meant that they would simplify rhythms in an extreme way... Isn't it how easier ones should work?
And still, I'd love to hear an opinion from even more people who specialize in structuring and explaining the phenomenon of easier maps because we don't have too many opportunities to hear lots of them. Of course we all know they are the unicorns of osu! but they definitely do exist as we can see on this page of the thread and I would like to thank AyanokoRin, Veridian and Endaris for voicing their opinion on the matter and being the unicorns together with me.
Stefan, I do not understand the line in quotation marks...