chess starts to seem easy n a way that when playing others around my rating I find it easier to come up with ideas and to exploit some bad ideas but may I ask why do you ask this.
How does the feel of games change as you get stronger?
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It always feels about the same... catching more vs less tactical and strategic errors. It's just the level of errors changes. The feeling stays about the same but you're drawing on a larger knowledge and pattern base.
So maybe right now it's they don't castle and you realize that's bad and use it to get an advantage. To a master a lesser opponent may lose time with a poor move order or decide on a bad square for a piece and now they leverage that into an advantage.
Tell us about your recent rating changes, and how different it felt playing opponents of a given rating before and after. My guess is that if your strength went up 400 points, you would have to feel like you were enlightened and much stronger, whereas if it only goes up 100 points, you would probably just feel like your opponents blunder more. True?
And how fast is the fastest you ever went up a consistent 200 points?
My rating used to range between 1390 and 1510, mostly staying betwen 1425 and 1475. Then I practiced lots of tactics, mostly getting more familiar with stuff I already know. Now my rating ranges from 1460 to 1530 and climbing. It got as low as 1460 mostly from losing connections.
As for feel, I don't feel like I'm any better than I was before. I just feel like my opponents are weaker. When I see someone who has my old rating, I just know they will blunder at some point. A 1400 player who loved to fiancheto both bishops and do discover attacks won a few pawns off me in the opening, but then threw away two pieces soon after and resigned. Back when I was weaker, I might not have caught those errors. I also notice when I attack their king, they walk right into mates that could have been avoided. 1480 players often escape my attacks, leaving me a piece down after my sacrifice.