Do puzzles get harder with number solves?

It seems that getting back to a rating that you had reached previously is getting more difficult with time.
For example I have reached 2100 with relative ease the first time I got there. Then the inevitable drop off happens and I retreat back to around 2000. I assume that the same level puzzles will be presented on my way back up to 2100 but they seem much harder. This makes me peak at around 2050, before I drop off to around 1950. At that point I’m trying back to climb back to 2050, but of course I peak around 2000 and drop off to 1900.
I’ve noticed that before I was getting more familiar patterns but now the puzzles include more open positions and longer problems in general.
Also it seems I lose a lot more points for getting a puzzle wrong than being awarded for getting one right, regardless of the difficulty of the puzzle I solve.

Yeah I go up and down a lot. The problem is it punishes you hard for a wrong move and a lot of times there is multiple right moves. There’s a crap ton of them. So for me it’s hard to get and keep a lot of patterns burned in my mind.

I just started spaced repetition with a certain group of puzzles. I found it to be way more effective and efficient. You stick with a group. In my case 200. Do them every day. Eventually you start doing them for time and speed because you will eventually start getting them all right. Similar to the woodpecker method.

Once I started this. Not long after I went on 9-10 game winning streak on daily games. Even though I still seemed kind of stuck on the rated puzzles.

Bottom line the spaced repetition definitely improved my tactical and over all daily rating. I seemed to have got a little quicker at reading the board as well. Even though I don’t play blitz hardly ever. So I don’t worry about the puzzle rating as much.

I'm starting to think the same way. I've noticed when you start to drop in rating you'll be given a run of puzzles that are mate in 1-2 moves, it's like tempting you to go higher but as soon as you start to increase you're given puzzles that are upto 10 moves deep, one I had recently, just to bring you back down to earth. I enjoy the puzzles but the hit for getting 1 or 2 wrong means that you have to get multiple right just to regain those losses.

I know this isn’t related, but as you to have a puzzle rating of over 2000 and a blitz rating below 1000, shouldn’t you focus more on things like openings and preventing your opponent’s ideas? You can definitely get much better.