I have never had an easy time with any FF.

I've always had some challenge.

Except in FFVIII. AND I WAS DOING A CHALLENGE RUN!

FFVIII is absurd because if you even vaguely understand the system, you can break it in an hour or two at most. It's not even a matter of going out of your way and getting Lion Heart on Disk 1 or whatever. You just have to use the Junction System. There, now the game is a joke.

Also note that the level scaling system is as broken as everything else because it means you have to put in even LESS effort by never fighting random battles. Just keep yourself at level 10 or some crap but Junction 100 Curagas to your HP and now you are immortal because even bosses will be doing triple digit damage for most of the game at most.