Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-27053902-20180529023301/@comment-35692230-20180721211743

Yeah, those are intended to be used as cheats when the level is too hard for the player so they don't get frustrated and stuck if they can't find the right strategy.

The difference about leveling is that you basically grind for a permanent cheat that's glorified as a legit strategic element of the game and while they are currently lazy to make it fully non optional by remakimg levels that came before leveling update, it's definetely not their intent to have it remain optional (in fact as I mentioned, they don't let you keep playing until you do the tutorial and level up Peashooter to lvl 2).

Casual players who struggle on certain levels too much already had options while this feature heavily changes the way PvZ 2 is gonna be played to the worse in an attempt to nake the game fit EA's goals of making everything into gambling p2w hell.