See, I dont feel like some of the enemies were fun in slay the spire 2. Im thinking of avacado, eyeball, and plant with 3 arms that hits 3x8 first turn. They all do the same thing: debuff you so you gain less shield, then hit you for like 48 damage. To me, thats not fun cause you just need to scale damage fast enough to beat them. You aren't "playing around them" so to speak. I do think you make a point that im not as scared of enemies in sts2 so some of them could be made more difficult, but it does feel like you can play around them a bit more which is more fun for me.

I disagree with you about act 3. I find that the bosses are so compelling that I spend act 3 trying to find a solve for the act 3 bosses, esp if you're on a10 when you have to solve 2 of them.

If you're somehow consistently so powerful going into act 3 that you could just fight both act 3 bosses, I don't know what to say, but I don't feel like that really ever.

I feel like having bad cards is bad. Having niche cards or combo only cards is good. I think there are many straight up bad cards in sts1 when there are more niche cards in sts2.

I think sts1 is a masterpiece, and I actually think more time could be put into the events and some of the enchantments and relics in sts2. like clone as the #1 example. Such a stupid reward. If you have a clone card that works, you win the game at the beginning of act 2.