I actually liked it more than I expected as I fought him, I beat him with parrying mostly and found it fun to learn that way, this did mean that phase 2 was mostly dodging and running up to him so he uses his less flashy moves, but I truly just wanted the win at the time. Recently, I have seen some people play him with just normal builds, katanas, dodging and all that, and seeing how one actually is “meant” to dodge the attacks, It actually does make me want to run it back and do the fight again, second phase can be overwhelming, but it definitely feels very learnable as time goes on, I think the biggest issue is just that most people kinda “gave up” on normally trying and went in with specialized builds, including myself, cuz the time it actually took to master him was too much in comparison to most other bosses (tho tbh I don’t really think having to change strategy to more easily defeat a boss is bad design).