They address this clearly in the overview video. Historically, since < .001% of play time involve near-impossible wiz modes, they throw all the balls onto the playfield, wait until they drain or 45s pass and call it a day. If they're going to make end-modes interesting, they want people to see and play them or it's a waste of their design time. They added a difficult 'Woody' wiz carrot for those who need it.

For those who keep commenting on the difficulty as 'too easy' for them.... Rumor has it the ACTUAL game designers (from the factory!) have included more-difficult gameplay settings for the 'pros' out there. This is a common feature in video games where the experience is EXACTLY the same PS5 to PS5 which is not true with pinball tables due to pitch, manufacturing differences, rubber types, flipper settings, socks in the outlanes, etc. etc. etc. So it's not like there is any purity of pinball scores game to game.

CHANGE THE DIFFICULTY SETTING if it's too easy for you.

Frankly, if true, it's about time JJP lowered the default setting a bit. Most prior JJP owners will never see the end modes of Woz/Potc/DI, etc. (unless they change the difficulty to super-easy).

So many problems with that "sentence" I don't know where to begin....

I agree with everything except that TS4 was a misstep.
I think TS4 is fun and well designed. I think the rules flow was a conscious, different, and good decision.
I think the pricing was relative to market, with recent Stern increases, and value of their manufacturing (bottleneck).
We all hate $10k+ pinball prices but if people can somehow justify Stern LE games are worth $10k, JJP LE games are definitely worth $2500 more.

Like most things on pinside, the current negativity is overblown as people attempt to justify passing on it. It will diffuse over time... again.

Agree to disagree. Godzilla is their most desirable game and they're making a million of them. $9k for a premium (fine) and $15k for an LE now? For "collectability"? Ok. Lol...

1, 2, and 4 were better than 3...