For context: I usually play on hard difficulty and I was building a bridge to a bastion remnant(and for possible portals). When I fell through a hole I didn’t realise was in the bridge.
Luckily I was close to shore and had Protection VI on all my stuff but I didn’t want to risk it(I had too much good stuff on me).
So I made a copy of my world and try to see if I can make it without lowering the difficulty but was not able to do it. So I lowered it to normal and still didn’t make it.
So I swallowed my pride, put it on easy and was able to make it. My pride maybe wounded but at least I survived.