2 weirdos with profiles revolving around wanting pointlessly difficult games, I wonder what kind of unfulfilled psychological needs lead to people being like this.
It's a disease called "being a different person." It's a horrible disease, I know. It's the same reason that you've just equated good gameplay being in a porn game to it being needlessly difficult. Even if that's not what you meant, your own determination to be an ass has led you down that hole. You were so focused on farming for engagement that you didn't notice what exactly you were saying, or you did and just admitted that you don't believe porn games with deeper gameplay than clicking a button or two should exist. Whatever the case may be, you've made it hard to take your opinion seriously. Wonderful job.
So, the dev thought it was a good idea to make it so that you needed to be in the air to use E on enemies, but not when you need to use E on the boss in order to to your special move
Once again, you are entirely wrong somehow. Pressing E on the ground is main way of taking down enemies. It causes you to leap into the air and land on the closest enemy in range (in the direction you're facing), taking them out instantly. Doing it in the air is just a little bonus to avoid all the wind up and make your takedowns faster, though it requires you to be a bit more precise by proxy.
Actually the game doesn't tell you that you need to press E in the boss at all.
The game gave you an enemy earlier in the game, one with a shield, to figure this out on. You cannot take them out normally, so you have to break their shield first with a special takedown, which can only be executed on the ground, then use a normal takedown (or a ninjitsu) on them. Either you missed the enemy, skipped it, or just don't have the pattern recognition the developer was expecting out of you.