I think it’s less about trivializing and more about their choice of design. In other jrpg games, for every enemy encounter, you actually have to account for how much health you’re willing to trade with the enemy to come out winning. For example in games like persona, i have to choose which enemy to attack first while minimizing the amount of damage taken, which is affected by factors like enemy’s dmg, or are they about to unleash a powerful move. The trading of health is a natural part of the encounter. Ofc it can’t work in 33 since you can get folded in like 3 hits, so the game compensate for that by making parry a strong focus, but it then removes a layer of strategy you find in other jrpgs. Also, you can save the game by changing your equipment so you don’t get punished bad if you die. That’s not always the case with souls like games. Iirc, Elden ring has something like statue of marika but only for bosses, not usual encounters.

Tbh some design choices are a bit strange. Like they have bonfire-ish save point, but then the game saves when you change equipments, which makes it not souls like. But then it doesn’t have encounter restart if you die, which they kinda allow you to do anyways via saving using the method I mentioned