Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Ramzal]

But your playing skill is how you adapt and handle the mechanics. To remove them means you're effectively hitting a training dummy, which has almost zero skill investment or fight variation.

I didn't say remove them. In fact I noted that they shouldn't be removed but they shouldn't be the main focus of progression.

Not saying mechanics should go away altogether but they shouldn't be as important as they are now.