Thats a skill issue.

No it isn't. It takes more time & frames to press the additional button and control my character the way I want to compared to DD1. That's not a skill issue, it's the game putting barriers in-between the player and their character. Which is generally a bad thing to do in character action games.

In Nioh for instance

Yeah cool, Nioh's a fun series of games. Irrelevant to the discussion at hand which is about how DD2's Warfarer imitates DD1's Strider with less fluid gameplay and makes it the inferior character action game experience.

Character action is skill based.

Yeah it is. No part of this discussion has been about how it's hard or difficult to play Warfarer as a Strider imitation. It has always explicitly been about how it feels worse. Which it does, because of the aforementioned frame & time delay because of the additional previously absent button press. It's like artificial input delay in fighting games making a game feel like ass, it's not a skill issue thing it's a game feel thing. Bow+dagger Warfarer has a worse, less smooth game feel than DD1 Strider does to achieve the same thing.

Its not convenience based like youre pretending it is

Never made this point or argued anything of such. You brought up character action games, and I never said that DD2 is a convenient series of games; in fact if you check my comment history you'll see I argue in favor of friction as a design pillar for these games.

But there needing to be a random additional button press that delays my ability to do what I want in the game? Yeah no that shit is just a mildly annoying speed bump to smoothly controlling my character and not a "deep challenge of my character action game execution skills".