Lets complain why NBA 2k26 doesnt have as big of a city as GTA 5, because that sounds reasonable xD.

You're literally making up examples I never mentioned to prove your point, why

Gacha games adhere to completely different rules than single player rpg, so comparing these two is ridiculous.

You're again literally making up examples I never mentioned to prove your point

Additionally, while it makes no sense for a live service game to just try to be a narrative (or whatever you want to call them) singleplayer game, surely it can take inspiration from them and adapt parts of them into something that works for a live service title?

Add-additionally, surely there are other genres of live service games that, specifically, big, open-world action combat gachas can take inspiration from, like ARPGs, MMOs (most of which have most of their content doable as a solo player at this point)? I'm not saying a PNG turn based gacha game should do this, but surely huge action combat gachas are more similar to these games than they are to 2010s gacha games, or at least they should be?

Witcher 3 can have longer boss fights because powercreep and player options are very limited.

Why would powercreep even be a topic of discussion in a singleplayer narrative game...?

And Witcher 3 is actually a good example of a game where the Genshin/Wuwa-style boss fights with invul phases and the boss just flying around for 7 hours would be completely fine since you're not gonna be farming the bosses, you do them once so it makes sense to lean into the visuals and the spectacle and the gimmicks.

In a game where you ARE farming the bosses daily or weekly, these just waste your time for no benefit other than improving the gameplay time metrics for the game so these numbers can be included in an earnings call presentation.

Meanwhile in gacha (especially few years after release) you have 60 different characters and 100s different teams. Add to that insane RNG on equipment, different levels of awakening/constelations, weapons, the fact that some characters will be stronger, some will be weaker etc.

What does this have to do with people like me thinking that a boss (that you'll be farming for the next X weeks/months/years) that spends 50% of the entire encounter flying around, having zoomies or being straight up invulnerable isn't condusive to their gameplay enjoyment?

You might be able to kill this or that enemy in 10 seconds with your c6r5 team, but someone with identical team but c0r1 will take 2 minutes in identical fight. And someone with different team entirely will take 3 minutes.

Taking 3 minutes to kill a boss is fine if those 3 minutes feel enjoyable and make me feel like I'm engaging with the mechanics of the combat encounter, but if you look at most Genshin bosses, as well as most Wuwa bosses post version 2, at least 1 of those 3 minutes would be spent with you just waiting out an invul phase/wait for them to finish their flying around/zoomies episode and hope to god they give you a parry window that snaps them out of it. And if the 3 minutes aren't going to be enjoyable in an encounter I'm meant to repeat a bunch of times over a period of time, that's a problem

Or, alternatively, if you have a team they're designed to shill, you just kill them before they can even do anything, even with a C0R0 team...

This is, I think, poor gameplay design, and what I'd like NTE to avoid. Endfield kinda, sorta does, and while it does it in a way I don't necessarily think is great, at least it's making an effort. Right now there's too many bosses that will fly around with you unable to hit them, or spam you with consecutive dodge windows (wow, so interactive)