For those who enjoy challenges, its nice to see some mechanics that have some bite and keep me on my toes.
Square has done and amazing job with how they've keep innovating new ways to use their systems, the encoutners are the strongest part of this expansion by malms.
What you're experiencing is what Savage raiders feel whenever they walk into a new boss fight, and then they practice and try and fail for months and months and months until it becomes second nature, like any coreographed routine.
Welcome to having to work for the clear :-).
Keep at it an you will come to find hard work and dedication is a completely different kind of rewarding.