Thoughts on: How Much Handholding Is Enough?

If developers want to make hard games, we should let them. If they want to make easy games, we should also let them. But it depends on the vision of the developers. With AAA titles, they often want to reach the biggest possible audience, which can overshadow the artistic intent. Who knows what they truly strived for? A game fails for me if I have the feeling that my inputs don't matter, because what's the point of making it a video game then?