@LOGICWINS
I find your argument valid but very unlikely. Nintendo is well known for offering awful discounts on games released back on 2016 so it would be too much out of character to offer a "free upgrade". They have never made a single pro consumer decision in the last decade as far as I can remember.
It's baffling how Sony and Microsoft suffers all backslash from this sort of decision but the community jumps to Nintendo's defense as if they are somehow pro consumers all of a sudden.
If you select the easy difficult mode there is a prompt for dodge or protego and a slightly longer time dilatation effect so you can easily pull it off.