Nightreign's Forsaken Hollows DLC makes Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree seem easy

I cannot emphasize enough how much more difficult Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows is compared to the base game. At first, I thought that my stumbles were just the natural outcome of playing something new where no one knows how anything works. Now, even as the community has sorted out things like boss weaknesses, routing, and strong class spreads, it's obvious that Nightreign's DLC was concocted to extract as much pain as possible.