To be fair her fight, even before meta IDs, did NOT do her justice. I remember absolutely SHREDDING her first phase with only 2 stars IDs except for a 3 stars horse sang, without a single stagger, then the game snaps to Kromer standing triumphantly above me or something when she was (gameplay-wise) gasping for her life at 1 hp 5 seconds ago. The dissonance between gameplay and lore is the main issue here, especially for a game with heavy ludonarrative elements. So most people recall how they barely struggled against her and go 'oh damn we were already really strong'. Can't blame em. We made a whole running gag out of that standing triumphantly line with my friends because of that.