The second sentence says: “It’s impossible to raise the difficulty before reaching the empowered monoliths,.”
The boots raise the difficulty before reaching empowered monoliths.
The 3rd suggestion the OP left starts with “Do something about the early game for alt characters.”
The boots do something about the early game for alt characters.
I didn’t see mention of the boots in the post, thought they fit the description of what OP wanted and they line up with one of their suggestions.
This wasn’t a sarcastic “well have you tried…” type comment. I was putting forward a potential solution that was already in game. It isn’t exactly what they were after and that’s fine. I still think it was a reasonable and appropriate suggestion.