Yep

I go from smart to pea brain

Pretty much
But the idea is that you go from weak to super powerful but you still die alot
Is that just me? Am I a noob?

wait if a noob and a noob both become pros won't they both die the same

Well the thing is I have endgame armor and still die alot
I play on switch so the highest difficulty I could play on was expert mode until just a month ago I think now I can play on master mode and I'm moving all my stuff to a master mode world