Makes sense.

while I agree it's not funny or particularly helpful, pretending that it's not helpful because of mechanics you don't unlock until the end of the game is silly. If you've unlocked weapon modes, a typical tutorial is not designed to help you. It's designed to help players stuck earlier in the game get a feel for the systems.

I personally think the combat is flawed precisely because the best course of action is just to spam all the buttons -- until it isn't. Weapon modes should be unlocked before skirmishes, and for the difficulty curve of the game, SP costs of spectral weapons should be higher in the early-mid game. Rather than saying this game has good combat, I would say that the combat in this game eventually becomes good.

Moreover, even if you used the right buttons, you would quickly run out of SP. You need to do a build with instant EP regeneration on dmg or crit on at least one of your spectral weapons.
And it's even worse if you are using a specific weapon mode, because you'll hardly have time to charge a level 4 attack in power mode. Finally, as dodging also consumes PE, your "tutorial" isn't that helpful since you don't do any damage once you're dead.

I agree that the game is overpriced and has many flaws, but combat is not one of them. If you think so, you haven't played enough or you are not in the target audience. Nobody asked you to buy this game, not even Square Enix :')

You had one job and you failed

Indeed, fail. Nobody has PS controllers either because their consoles are anti-consumer.

Those are for target locking and dodging, these post isn't even funny (which was meant to be)