lol well I just hit Gold 1 for Tag for the first time and it wasn't even that hard to do, just did my 5 per day so whatever changes they made recently I'm happy with.

Now that I got my mission done, I can set my defense to all Solo teams and blitz through the dailies

Did you notice a significant difference in difficulty with the larger tier sizes?

Not at all it was a joy to dump 5 in a row 

against teams with 850 to 1.1 million using my 450 point team

 to get my 18 faction turns

you understand the sarcasm right .. so Yes I definitely noticed the Dificulty

I will say Silver IV seemed easier last week than it normally does and I was able to keep a 3-2 Win-Loss ratio

Congrats!

Nice.  I tend to find Gold 1 easier than S4 since immediately people start doing 1 man teams all week.