I like how hard they are.
I find that in a pug with semi competent players story mode is a better approach.
PUG explorer mode is hard but doable with a waypoint zerg but gets frustrating. Thats fine. that content may be bared to me to some degree. but we still did it.
and after i realized my armor was weak and skills poorly set and i fixed that up some i have to do overland content at least 4 levels higher than i am for a challenge.
playing it reminds me of how much more entertaining counterstrike seems with a team that communicates.
My only complaint here is how hard it is to communicate using in game tools.