Skill issue. Even if you ignored the open world completely, the mechanics are more varied and deep than any other Souls game. Try to do magic only in Dark Souls 1. It's boring as hell. Try to do a jumping attack based build in--wait, you can't even do that in any of the other Souls games.

the "varied and deep mechanics": 90% ripped straight from dark souls 3, a jump button (lol), and more npc summons that trivialize the difficulty. But yeah, skill issue!