Or maybe they didn't set anything and people are just complaining because it's not the kind of mode they want. If they still complain that the mode is just bloated stat, clearly they haven't gotten out of Act 1 yet where key fights can no longer be brute forced like Classic mode because you actually have to think about how to approach them now.
But of course, the people who are doing well are a bunch of min-max cheater who refuse to play fair and just exchange blow for blow so that's clearly a bad mode and it's unfun, unfair and absolutely nothing like the glorious golden age of D OS 1 EE tactician era.