MT2 seems way easier than MT1

I played MT1 for approximately 100 hours and I never even hit Covenant 25 (I think I got to about 21). I have played MT2 for about 14 hours and I just beat Covenant 10 easily. Now I know there’s more to do in the game but it seems strange how easy it was to beat the highest covenant without even having all the clans leveled up (I’m at level 6-7 on everyone).

Now I know that I’m more experienced now but even as I was preparing for this release and picked back up MT 1, I was still struggling around cov20. Is anyone else feeling the same way about the difficulty?