As it stands, an Ascended Antiquarian realm has a rating of 100, and an Ascended Astrolabe realm also has 100. A player with a gear score of, say, 100 to 120, who would like to see more of a challenge, can increase their overall difficulty from Balanced to Champion, but that increases the rating from 100 to 160. At this point fighting a small wolf pack becomes a significant challenge... a chore, even.
I would suggest two changes here.
Give each of the Ascended realms a rating 10 higher than the previous.
Make the Champion difficulty closer to Balanced, or add intermediate difficulty levels, or provide a slider. In my opinion, the more choices you provide here, the more players will be happy.
