This is a good post. And it’s why I love the game so much. It wants you to be relentless. When the combat is flowing, there is nothing quite like it.
I felt it the most with Lady Butterfly. I had her attacks down perfectly so it was attack, attack, deflect, deflect, deflect, dodge, attack.
And when she backed off and threw her knives at me, I just batted them out of the sky.