Thats still the case for the recent remake, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, though the baseline difficulty has been ratcheted down somewhat from the '90s version
Angelo Cannon - Whenever Rinoa Heartilly attacks, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature you control
His deck was super sweet and played a strategy that seems like it would be difficult for us, so Im going to mark it down as a tie
Instead, the biggest shift we see is in the middle, with a ton of cards falling into the $1$2 price slot, while the high end (anything $3 or more) is severely lacking
It's lampshaded, as Mediators' "Mimic Daravon" skill inflicts Sleep
So its good with enchantments, sagas, equipment, and similar cards