The larger consequences of Platinum/Veteran update: Plat = too hard, Gold = too easy

So I sat on this a bit.  Here is one of the larger consequences of the platinum addition.

Platinum in ME3 was a proportional step up from gold.  This platinum was not a proportional step.  It is more reflective of a Diamond difficulty than Platinum.

The changes to character cards that now let them have up to a 40% boost, while are meant to make Platinum more manageable, Platinum can still be a veritable shit show.

The larger issue with this change is that Gold is now significantly easier because of these boosts.  While that by itself is not a problem, the issue is the divide that is created from a Gold that is slightly simpler to do between a Platinum that is too hard.

Gold = too easy, Platinum = a grind for those who really want the challenge of all challenges.  As you can see, a basic "hard/harder" difficulty is missing.  Farming has now become either more boring playing gold or not proportional to the point that there is a large apprehension to even attempting a platinum game.

A lesson for the Devs:  Do you know what a bell curve is?  It's a chart that shows how distribution works for, well, anything.  And 95% of the group in question falls somewhere in the "acceptable" middle.  The other 5% on either ends of the curve are either falling above or bellow that average to the extent that they are not considered a part of the group for statistical purposes.

Let's say, hypothetically, the ideal bell curve of the general state of the game is what you should be shooting for.  But with this change that creates this divide between gold and platinum, the result of overly hard platinum and easier gold misses that ideal curve entirely.

I might have butchered that attempt at simple language in order to avoid the term "standard deviation," but for those that DO understand what that is, these changes force the game state and player base to those edges that fall outside of the standard deviation, one or two depending on how forgiving you are feeling toward the changes.

Either way, the point is that they obviously missed the target.  To what degree is up for debate.

Changing hack to something less stupid would help this comparison a lot if the Devs are looking for a fix easier than a complicated debate.  I realize that thinking is hard for them.

TL:DR: The Devs nee to read Goldilocks and see that you're missing the third bowl of porridge.