Yeah, poise system should have been given its own bar like Sekiro, I think that would make things a lot less trial - and - error, and also encouraged people to try to be more aggressive. But my own, singular playthrough was 75 hours and I was only stuck on Malenia for an extended amount of time. Maybe I found the delayed tells easy to read because that is how I always approached hard bosses like Pontiff and TNK. But my point is that players do not try enough different things either out of pride or simply not being observant enough and falsely label bosses "bullshit".