So with the fork to kgw will this be more difficult to mine? My apologies for the ignorance, but I'm just a small time scrypt miner.
Implementing KGW doesn't necessarily increase difficulty in itself, it just makes it so the difficulty matches the network hashrate in real time. Right now the difficulty is 7.9ish with an estimated increase to 9.8ish in nearly 800 blocks. With KGW, instead of waiting all those blocks to increase the difficulty, it readjusts EVERY block.. so the next block would be 9.8ish difficulty.
This way, if a giant multipool jumps in with 500mh the difficulty will spike up immediately to match it. If they leave, the difficulty will drop back down.
*Note- The "estimated difficulty" is usually an overestimation. (Before last increase it was 5.xx with estimated increase to 10.xx, but when the difficulty changed we actually landed at 7.9ish)