Bullshit. You can't resist the damage well with most equipments and if your damage with supereffective damage is already mediocre, attempting to use any other move will just straight up tickle them, and unless the boss is into that, it means no damage either. It doesn't matter if I'm not forced to do Badass battle with them because they're still excessively hard to beat in a Normal battle. Weighting mechanics against the player doesn't make the combat "complex", adding strategy makes the combat complex, because there is no strategy in this game, you just stack a bunch of stats, use only supereffective attacks, try to never miss them and hope that the boss won't take you out when you try to use your consumables. This isn't strategy, its a formula and it has been the formula against every boss in the game.