Its a bit like eso and fallout where enemies scale to you regardless of your progress or gear. One wasteland its called in fallout 76, Its a cheap developers trick to make all older content as difficult and relevant as newer content. Its also a good way of not having to balance new abilities and weapons with every update, as every update will be 5 levels above so you will never fight “easy” or “hard” areas. Of course, it means that you really need to focus heavily on good meta builds to get that edge and steamroll stuff again. -5 is not really that much harder, it is true. But it has set the base difficulty factor in all raids and dungeons to a standard level. So no more VoG and Shattered Throne being the “easy” ones, now they all have the same handicap. Elitists wet dream - “I want a challenge” 😆