After the change in difficulty, today's ARC problems seem to be a bit too standard/easy to be like the AtCoder problems we used to know. While it may be harder to set the problems like before that require more thinking and are more challenging now (due to the fact that participants have practiced more or some other reasons), will it be possible for ARC to be open for everyone to propose in the future (meanwhile, keeping the high standard of problems)?
Update: feel free to leave your opinion on what ABC/ARC/AGC problems should be like in the comments >_<
ABC: Classic problems & Easy problems.
ARC: Easy than AGC, but less classic & trick problems, more Ad-Hoc problems, like before.
AGC: Hard and Ad-Hoc.
The last three problems in this contest feel like the kind of problem that you'll expect in ABC G or previous Ex. requires high-difficulty algorithm/ math skills,but quite straight forward
ABC is too easy, it's basically braindead coding for the first 4-5 tasks. Would like to see more math\dynamic programming\something that requires thinking and no standard tasks which are copy-pastes of standard algos. ARC usually is great, as long as there are no interactive tasks.
ABC is designed for standard use of algos (if I'm correct), so this should be fine. if you need to practice thinking skills, I think it's better to refer to ARCs.
I think the main problem is about the difficulty. I would rather have fewer ARCs than too easy ones like today. I still think the problem quality of ARCs and AGCs are very high, and it's the same for today. But I would like to have a harder E and probably another F to make this contest more enjoyable.
Previous ARCs are suitable for participants from blue all the way to orange and even red, but if following ARCs are still of this difficulty, I'm afraid that orange and above coders might solve everything easily, and there's nothing challenging for them.
Considering the fact that AGCs are very rare, I hope ARCs could stay at their previous difficulty and it would be acceptable to have fewer of them.
I am only able to solve till C most of the time although I solve them fast and sometime I also solve D in ABCs but need to improve and solve D regularly in ABCs now