I've tried replaying the game multiple times but the difficulty and how boring the combat is because of it is one of the biggest things that makes me drop the game again.
It reaaaaaaally doesn't help that the combat is also set in stone, the fights are all '' solved '' and just become tedious.

Obviously this applies to most games, but when there's no danger involved it kinda just gets ZzZzzzZzz...
I really dunno how much worse it must be if you're a min-maxer lol, because I didn't min-max at all in my playthrough and attempts at new playthroughs.
I don't think I even used a single speed pot it just simply wasn't ever necessary there was never a point where I looked at my inventory and went '' omg I need to use something now ''.