sechel: “I think there is schar and onesh but I agree that hashem is understanding and merciful and takes into consideration what today’s generation is going thru.”
Sorry, but to me that seems a meaningless statement. When Hashem judges each individual he does so according to that individual’s personality, emotional makeup, his life experiences, and everything else that makes him the person he is, as those are the way Hashem made him. It has always been that way, and it always will.
Furthermore, who are we to say that this generation has it any harder than any other generation? We don’t have the same desire for avodah zarah and (surprisingly) for arayos as the generation of Anshei Knesses Hagedolah (see Sanhedrin 64a), and each generation has its own nisyonos.
Isn’t it just that we have been mollycoddled and feel that we deserve an easier life with fewer nisyonos? (And yes, that feeling of being deserving may itself indeed be one of this generation’s great nisyonos.)