Yeah...I remember there being something like a shortened mode? That made progression faster. I dont mind losing, but it just takes soooo long to recover
It's less about the time it takes to reset, and more the fact that there's nothing I can do to counter it. No matter what, the game will just randomly hit the "Kill Player" button and erase all your progress. I'm convinced that the devs just didn't know how to properly balance a game, and rather than fix it, they just decided to call it a feature so that all the internet's tryhards would defend it for them.
Honestly, the only reason I keep going back to it is because it has the best atmosphere of any game I've ever played. The graphics, the character designs, the music, and THE MOTHERLOVING NARRATOR all work together to make it one of the only games that actually feels Lovecraftian, and it definitely does it the best. The only other games that come close are Bloodborne and Blasphemous.