Well, I put that sentence wrong, but you did get the whole idea.
Why to cheat on Megaman? Because controls have been bad witht hat game made in 1987. (almost 20 years old
) I did not like idea of spending days in playing it, and wanted to finish it.
Games are not getting harder in my opinion, just more time consuming, which is a good thing. Mini games seems to be today's trend. (GTA: SA, some of GBA games etc.)
But still if you just check couple of topics in this section, you'll see that people are complaining about things such as 3d games, complexity etc.