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Agree, and to add a bit more context:

* The contest has 15 problems and a time limit of 3 hours, giving only an average of 12 minutes per problem.

* The average score is 4.83/15, from the official statistics [1].

* The statistics noted that only 5.17% of test takers answered this problem correctly, making it the second-hardest problem out of the 15 on the exam.

[1] "AIME 02/08/2022" https://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx



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