Maybe they're confusing using the collar with actually fighting the bosses?
NO! You never have to take off the collar for anything. That's exactly the problem! What is the point of a mechanic that you never engage with? It's superfluous and pointless! Add to that you would think a power sealing collar on a hero in a porn game would lead to S&M play. The only purpose the collar seems to serve is as a get out of jail free card for the unprepared or an obnoxious limitation on how much you can get done in one day, and yes it is obnoxious because there is no time limit unless you count Alicia's brainwashing which I don't because the player controls her so you are never in any danger...
I grew up on turn based strategy games. I beat SMT apocalypse on apocalypse easily as well as the other SMT games including Nocturn, I beat Fire emblem fates conquest on the highest difficulty easily (Like 7 hours on an emulator). I beat most video games on the highest difficulty easily because most video game difficulty just requires that you pay attention and be patient. I don't care about difficulty!
Difficulty IS subjective. Anytime someone uses words like good or bad that is an opinion! Notice the emotionally charged language. You cannot tell me that I am factually incorrect for holding an opinion unless you are butt hurt and want to argue with me to try and bully me into shutting up or agreeing with you which is a waste of everyone's time and very rude!
Normally in video games when you beat a boss the next set of bosses is stronger. In this game after Greed the bosses are treated like Freeza in Dragon Ball Z fusion reborn - They literally don't matter and can be killed off in a group like basic enemies.
The Roya side of things contradicts itself. She's weakened by the collar and struggles against Greed. Alicia weakens her further by altering her mind. The lust curse weakens her. And yet despite only learning a handful of spells that anyone can use the bosses get reduced to fodder BY THE STORY. The story ignores everything it set up so that you can win a fight easily that you shouldn't have been able to from a logical perspective plus compared to the Greed fight it was just boring. The progression is BAD and doesn't make any sense!
Is it because I dared to play a porn game like a porn game? Who knows. The tone is all off though. All the moving parts don't seem to fit well with each other and only interact with each other in minimal and superficial ways if at all. Ex. Her giving up on studying making it take longer to finish books which are fringe easy to miss content to begin with or her hero outfit not changing with her real world outfit like you would think it would.
Locking stances to the very end (the benefits at least) ensures that they will be useless/underused just like the Mutagens in The Witcher's Blood and Wine DLC. etc. Only you can play Blood and Wine first so Mutagens can matter, you can't do that with stances, not even with NG+ last I checked and that's not even accounting for their dubious usefulness that I don't even want to get into.
I don't know how I could possibly be any clearer about this. I feel like I am repeating myself at this point because I am!
I just wanted to know if there where any plans for these things to change. That's literally it. Not get pulled into a pointless argument or get dragged for daring to think for myself.