I have yet to feel this in any D:OS2 battle... and there were quite a few of them... Annoyingly many of them infact. Combat really gets boring fast in this game, and with there being way more than in D:OS1...
Did we play the same alpha? For me, this was the first game in a long time that didn't have any meaningless trash encounters. This alone made combat more fun than OS1, which was already pretty great, as long as you don't just CC every enemy in the fight on the first turn.