How would you animate it though?

You can pvp in dnd. The combat is evolved enough your only issue is sharing a DM you may catch on to your opponents strategy, but that's always going to be the case

What type of games are you referring to?

This is why multi-player games often include ranking systems. My recommendation is that you start playing ranked so that you are matchmaking with people who out as much effort/skill into the game as you do.

If you play random or casual games you are obviously going to get a lot of people who aren't skilled or aren't trying. Some people like hopping on a game and not caring or goofing off, we all enjoy ourselves differently

Because they are different games and the developers can do different things Dark souls has built its brand on being hard and there have definitely been a lot of people who complain about there not being an easy mode.

Pokémon never established the fact that it's supposed to be easy just that it's meant to be playable by all age groups which tends to entail atleast a modicum or option of ease.

If they want to have a hard mode or not is up to them, but regardless players are going to complain about their decision. Each company can make any decisions they want but you can never make everyone happy

Outward

A way out, it's a co op puzzle adventure with decent graphics; it can be played splitscreen or online