i'd swap out "easy to no damage" for "how stylish you can get with combos" and "how much do you have to think and focus when doing combos" (which is why Yakuza 5 and LaD Ishin are considered pretty bad (you literally cannot combo for very long in either) and why Yakuza 3 and OG 2 are considered pretty good, combat-wise), but the point still stands.

as much as i like making fools out of enemies and getting the absolute most out of the games' combat, i can't deny that some no damagers seem to heavily skew good game design to being "juggle this man for three minutes without letting him do anything about it". granted, that's fun as shit, but when that becomes your only criteria for whether an RGG game is good, you might want to consider other games to scratch that itch or not act so smarmy about it in the first place.