[Suggestion/Discussion] Normal vs Hard Mode

This is more of a here's what I want, but maybe not kind of post.

I recently been working with all the new villagers and when a Zombie got to him, he just straight up perished rather than convert into a zombie villager. This annoyed me extremely since I worked for days to get a villager with that exact trade on it. Looking into it, I realized this due to EMC being set on the base "Normal" difficulty. This wouldn't have happened if EMC was on "Hard" difficulty. So I was wondering if they [dev team] could either make that part of "Hard" mode over into EMC or simply switch the base difficulty to "Hard" mode. Below is a list I pulled from the Minecraft Wiki of the differences for those unaware of the differences between "Normal" and "Hard" mode.

Normal:
"Hostile mobs spawn and deal standard damage. The hunger bar can deplete, leaving the player with a half-heart if it drains completely. Zombies do not break down doors, but villagers killed by zombies have a 50% chance of turning into zombie villagers."

Hard:
"Hostile mobs deal greater damage than on Normal difficulty. The hunger bar can deplete, and the player starves to death if it drains completely. Zombies can break through wooden doors and can spawn reinforcements when attacked. Spiders can spawn with a beneficial status effect (speed, strength, regeneration & invisibility) and these effects have an infinite duration in Java Edition. Villagers killed by zombies always turn into zombie villagers."

I'm curious to if this could be done or the reasons why we aren't on "Hard" mode already?

Maybe just ask the dev to make the odds of a villager turning into a zombie 100% on normal mode?

You forgot the most important part of what hard mode brings. It brings extremely cheap trades via an exploit. All trades in fact for 1 emerald. If the economy is already on life support, this would pull the plug, dance on it's grave and then haunt it for eternity. On a server it's an awful exploit that would do far more harm than good. Best left to single player. If anything it should be changed to Easy mode so there is 0% chance of getting this.

Trying to keep my opinions on the economy for a different thread so I won't even touch that but...

If this "exploit" is so detrimental to the server, would there be a way to patch that out in a custom plugin? Given the influx of new players and such if not me, then someone surely will attempt to use it. And personally, I feel that it isn't an exploit since it is intended to work that way.

Well you wouldn't though. You are trying to profit from it lol

*sigh* This is why I wanted change in EMC, but this is a shining example of why I don't give suggestions. Thanks everyone. Just close this thread. We're done here.