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Ever since the disaster that was several overpowered encounters in Gatewalkers, every AP since then has been a literal cake walk for our players.
Our Discord plays the latest APs and honestly the last time a PC died was during Blood Lords and that was from a critical failed Medicine check.
We just finished Book 1 of Shades of Blood in 7 sessions. The encounters were a YAWN fest and the GM told us that no encounter was over Moderate difficulty and most were Trivial.
Seriously I have to know, Paizo why have you made all your APs super easy?
Creative Director
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Part of this is perhaps because your players are getting better at the game—but another part is that we've taken the feedback that the adventures were "too tough" to heart and have skewed things back a bit... especially for 1st level portions of adventures where things can be extra tricky.
The goal of most of our published adventures is not to present things tailored toward new players nor toward very experienced players, but at an average experience somewhere in the middle. This way, any one GM can more easily adjust the adventure to be tougher or easer as needed to make for a more entertaining and enjoyable experience for their players.
It's also worth noting that our adventures assume a group of 4 players. If you have more than 4 players (or to be precise, more than 4 PCs), then things are also going to be easier than expected.
That said, a quick look at Book 1 of Shades of Blood reveals to me that most of the encounters are Low or Moderate. I didn't see any Trivial ones, and did see 3 Severe ones, so it might be your GM has already done some work at adjusting the adventure as presented and maybe went a bit too far in adjusting things toward the easy side? So... simply from a what I'm seeing in print side of things, Not sure what to say there... unless I did miss some Trivial ones in my quick flip-through of the pages.