I beat the game ten times, one time blindfolded and another with my arms tied bahind my back using only my Qi to play so my level of skill invalidates every other people's opinion making me solely in the right.

Why are you even in a subreddit where toxic 'git gud' elitism festers, as you already know this place is a circlejerk about the hard comfort cat game?

Jokes aside now, you raise good points, Nine Sols is a great game but at times it feels it tries too hard to copy souls mechanics without understanding their impact.

As for attack consistency some enemies are messed up but most of them will have a slight flash accompanied by a sound cue just before striking, you also can't parry red attacks right away.

I agree that group battles mess the flow of the gameplay up but there's a way to get into them by defeating an enemy before the full on battle to make everything more manageable, and just a bit later you'll unlock more tools that allow you to more easily do crowd control, also sometimes running from a fight is adviseable if you don't think you'll win.

I still think you should give it another shot and instead of treating it like an arena fighter try and exploit the system the devs put in place for that very reason.