Wtf is going on with the difficulty spikes in this game???

Clearly they keep increasing the difficulty on a regular basis as they have admitted in the current era game modes. "Recommended" era 3 challenge has my characters at or above the recommended level and yet they are getting their **bleep** handed to them where this did not happen before. Same with colosseum. The WORST case is what I experienced today in conquest. RELIC 10 GL Leia, R8 R2, R7 Drogan, R7  Raddus and R5 Jyn on NORMAL conquest against R1 Empire team sector 3, WIPED THE **bleep** OUT!!!??? This has never happened to me on previous conquest with NON GL's against the SAME enemy team composition until THIS conquest. YES, I know the enemies are inflated, YES, I know Piett has emporer's trap but the fact that several of them went first against my Leia with a 504 SPEED and then handedly dismantled me is **bleep** quite frankly. I should have been able to SNEEZE on that team and beat them! The fact that a relic 1 team regardless of their composition defeating that is **bleep** **bleep**...

CG, check what the hell you are doing or you are going to lose a lot of players that care about that kind of thing! Right now, I'm almost ready to leave the game and for all of you apologist - save it. It's **bleep**, there is no excuse