RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.

Deus Ex Human Revolution's initial release was the worst about this. A bunch of people who took the skills and inventory for non-lethal/stralth/hacking gameplay found themselves at boss fights that were straight-up gunfights. If you were kitted out and skilled properly to face-tank while using explosives and big guns, you were just screwed and couldn't progress.

In subsequent releases, they added additional options in the arenas that allowed you to kill them using stealth and hacking skills.

Cyberpunk 2077 one of the quests in the expansion drops you into basically Alien: Isolation when up until that point you can beat the shit out of or hack the brains out of any other NPC you've come across. You go from being a cybered out demigod to basically a rat in a maze being chased by a giant metal invincible doberman.

Holy shit, action games and giant bosses you can't juggle… I love Bayonetta, but goddamn… Jeanne aside, some of the worst bosses in the genre.

Assault Spy was awesome for letting you juggle literally every boss in the game.

This is why I’d almost rather linear games that teach one core mechanic rather than “Build your character the way you want them”.