https://wccftech.com/demons-souls-easy-mode-could-have-been-a-reality-on-ps5/

It is common knowledge at this point that there is no Demon's Souls easy mode in the PlayStation 5 remake, but there could have been.

Speaking with The Washington Post, Gavin Moore (Creative Director at SIE on this project) revealed that the Bluepoint development team did consider and discuss it, but ultimately decided against it as they didn't feel it was their place (the original game was, after all, made by FromSoftware for PlayStation 3).