I love the fact you don’t simply delete “Masochist” and care about a small portion of your community, but implementing it behind a “build defining” unique slot (boots in this case)
Some build need this slot to even working (low life and sets items). Having to hide all boots does not feeling good too.
You can even creat a system with specific challenge furter, imagine having a “bad” vendor in the first town or in The End of Time, who sell you multiple type of idols with specific challenge. If the progression for new players is a problem with the Idols slot ? Maybe make this vendor spawn only when you finish the quest, anyway, the boots is hide behind an “invisible” road in the first zone, maybe this is enough and just change it to an Idols maybe ?
Even if you had a good point to make no one is going to listen to an extremely passive aggressive comment that sounds like a 12 year old girl complaining about the boy that won’t ask her out. “Imaging trying to make an adult point. Doesn’t seem hard.”
It also being hidden is infantile. They’re afraid of people turning it on then quitting due to the game being too hard and thus losing potential MTX sales because all they care about now is revenue.
Please, I’m not a child, don’t treat me like one.
It does feel bad that the difficult is tied to an equipable item.
Going along with your idol challenges, I think a better option would be if they had a special idol slot that could only hold those idol challenges. With this, I feel like you get the best qualities of (1) being able to choose which challenges you want (2) can turn those challenges off if you feel they’re too difficult and (3) it doesn’t impact your build since it doesn’t take any slots
