This game is really good but not nearly as hard as the discourse (or the demo) made me believe

Lies of P is probably the best souls-inspired game I've played to date and I've been having a great time with it, but I've seen so much talk about how ridiculously hard it is. I expected to get stuck on nearly every boss since I struggled with the demo, but I've pretty effortlessly made it to the opera house. I haven't fought the infamous "green monster" yet, and maybe I'll eat my words when I do, but so far I'd rank the difficulty of this game pretty low among soulslikes. This isn't a brag. I'm average at best at these games. But I had a much harder time with some sections of Demon's souls and most of Sekiro, and find Mortal Shell (which isn't nearly as polished as this, mind you) to be the hardest soulslike I've played. What makes Lies of P more challenging to those of you that find it more challenging? Have I just not gotten to some egregious upcoming difficulty spike?