For bugs especially you need to bump the difficulty up to AT LEAST Impossible now for things to even feel threatening with a moderately high leveled team. A group of four of us around level 80 went through hard and Suicide with almost 0 deaths on our first attempts after these “patches.” We did a run through one set for bots too and it definitely feels different.
I’m not sure this is a good thing.
I only play in two helldiver squads and the game has definitely gotten easier. I always play on 6 - Extreme, except for Terminid High Value Assets missions due to Impalers. After the first mission, we immediately went up to 7 - Suicide Mission due to the lack of spawns. Generally, I would say it’s a good thing as you typically don’t see bile warriors, bile spewers, or spore chargers at level 6.