Was difficulty nerfed in general?

Ok, so I started my first playthrough of the LE trilogy, and, as I want to platinum it on my very first attempt, I am playing as a soldier, only class I ever use, instead of trying something new (my original plan), and started on insanity difficulty.

Only played ME1 on insanity once, and though I found it easy, it was a NG+ with full spectre gear starting on max level. So I thought it might be a challenge to do it from the get-go with starting gear and little powers.

To my surprise, it was very easy from eden prime. I actually found the original game harder, even with my fancy equipment.

Also, I ended on level 33 instead of 50 (or 60), and little spectre gear. I though maybe they had extensively reworked the skill tree and points and limited the overpowered spectre gear, but later I found it was, indeed, a bug. So I was always under equipped AND under leveled, and it STILL was a breeze.

Than I went to ME2. Didn't fell too different early on, but for the first time in my life I won the final Terra Nova battle on first attempt... so far, might be a fluke, and the first fight on the disabled collector ship was appropriately hard (had to restart and optimize team instead of taking story favourites), and for a second there I hoped... but than I downed the scion there on first attempt as well.

I remember 3 hard fights on ME2, all in DLC; in Arrival, the "scort Dr. Kenson" locked me for 2 days last time. Did it first attempt no issue a few days ago; in Overlord, the last fight took half a dozen attempts before... now first time again. In LoTSB, the asari spectre fight was also a first attempt (this one I did before, but this time I was never threatened), and the last horde area before invading the SB ship took only two attempts, and in the first I almost succeeded.

Now, I remember reading they would rebalance some of the though spots, like the Benezia fight on ME1 (that actually was never that thought imho), but now it seems that the overall difficulty was dropped, and quite significantly... also of note that I'm not comparing with memories from long ago. Eight months prior I only played ME1 on normal. I decided to try and up my game during the pandemic, and getting the platinum on all original trilogy ME games was one of my ideas. So I,m comparing with playthrough from 5 months ago.

What is the general perception here? You guys also feel that huge drop in the challenge? I still have the suicide mission a d all of ME3 already, so I suppose this is true there as well...

I wish they would launch an insanity plus option and restore the original level of difficulty in the game. It was frustrating sometimes (grrr... Scott Dr. Kenson), but imho, also more rewarding...

Rregards:).