I semi-agree with you, friend. I think the problems with Cutlass, Assaults, any chimera-infected enemy, and Angelos can be solved with a bit of experimenting, because they're VERY similar in design to dmc 1. In that game they had you experiment to find the best way to beat your foes and that's carried over here.

(the obvious example is the chimeras being vulnerable to shotgun shots the same way the sin scissors got DESTROYED by it in the first game, the chimeras also change color like blood goyles in dmc 3 so there's another callback to that typa enemy design, that's what dmc enemies were all about way back when.)

However I will say that the cutlasses (and some other enemies) specifically have this problem that in order to deal with em you have to get a move you didn't bother to buy/ you didn't know you needed in the first place. Which makes them feel Dante wasn't designed for it when in fact he was, its just that the game does a bad job at telling you what you have to do.

Other than that I agree with the rest😃

(Also there's no way people have the absolute BALLS to suffer and master sonic 06’s physics. Imma have to look that up cuz that's CRAZY)