Puzzle rating/difficulty correlation

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It seems like they make some more difficult puzzles much lower rated than they should be to make me lose more points rather than giving more difficult puzzles when I reached 3000 puzzle rating. The day after reaching 3000 all the puzzles were so difficult I could only solve maybe every other one and would lose -5 points for being incorrect because they were all high rated.

Now I am getting puzzles that are not quite as difficult but are by no means easy, I got 2 wrong and lost 60 rating points because they were rated 900 and involved several moves to just make a position winning by equalizing material, but were much more difficult than almost every puzzle I had completed on my way to 3000. I don’t care so much about the rating, it just seems like a dishonest way of keeping someone from having an inflated puzzle rating. Meanwhile, I sometimes get a puzzle that is so easy it takes me a minute to solve because I think I’m being tricked because the solution is just pawn takes queen that is hanging that is rated 1600.

I guess the main issue is the consistency in puzzle ratings. Along with the massive rating loss of failing to solve an under rated puzzle correctly.
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I mean, tell me what 1000 rated player is gonna solve this correctly within a minute or two? And I spent quite a bit of time on it. [Event "?"]
[Site "Chess.com iPhone"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "1r4k1/2r2pP1/2qNp2P/p2pP3/3Q1P2/P1P3n1/2K5/7R w - - 0 1"]

1. Rh3 Ne2 2. h7+ (2. Qd1 Qa4+ 3. Kd2 Qxf4+ 4. Kc2 ) Kxg7 3. h8=Q+ Rxh8 {*}