[armchairhacker]

Back in the day, getting a C was fine but getting an A was really hard, most students got Bs or Cs.

Now, getting an A isn’t so hard but a C is seen as a terrible, because most students are getting As.

Lots of schools have policies like yours but they’re not removing the pressure, they’re just shifting what’s “acceptable”. Sometimes they actually make it worse because now near-perfect scores are the norm, and if you mess up there’s no way to do extra somewhere else to bring you back to average.