Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
That's fair... To a point.
But a lot of this game is building on player knowledge as later fights reuse a lot of mechanics, they just have players connect the dots differently.
Practicing up on the early stuff def helps one get an understanding and a feel for how this game plays, and learning how you need to learn mechanics.
Though you may never see Ifrit's nails or Garuda's feathers again, there's still value in learning those fights.
Yes the mechanics get repeated, and you're still going to see it for the first time "somewhere".

But saying that you have to to the extra-hard content first so you'll recognise what to do when you see the same mechanic in a normal-difficulty fight later is putting things back-to-front. If you just continue with the other content and encounter the mechanics there, then you get to apply that to the hard content if you ever come back to challenge yourself on it.

You're either going to need to put a lot of effort into learning those EX fights, or put the same effort into learning the simpler normal-difficulty fights that will allow you to progress further into the game.