(And on that power scaling topic, there's still the fact that while we are very efficient to kick some Primal/Sin Eater, against another kind of enemy we aren't that overpowered. We saw that with Ranjit for instance. In the lore, we sometimes do need some power up phases based on whatever we are conveniently doing at that time so we can take on a mighty enemy).
(But I do think sometimes it's not doing any good to try to link too much lore and gameplay)