There are plenty of worse attacks in the series, and even that game alone. Hell go look at Virtue of wind God on Ultra lunatic.
That's not in the game. That's a patched version of Mountain of Faith. Get it right.
I know there are worse attacks in the series but at least most are fair and hard FOR A GOOD REASON. Attacks that have flourescent fire bullets everywhere (MONONOBE HAS AN ATTACK LIKE THIS) piss me off because I can't track their movement too well when they're clumpy.
Your issue isn't with game design; it's with additive blend. And you're far from the first person to complain about that. Seems like ZUN isn't getting rid of AB anytime soon, though, so get used to it, I guess.
Still gonna complain about it.
Proof that it's the fire bullets that piss me off: I like Virtue of Wind God, it's fun to dodge and I can see where the amulets are going.
Illusionary Dominance, the bullets are weird as shit but at least you can see which bullets are which and where they go.
Spinning of the Cephalic Plates, at least the hitboxes aren't much different from squares in the needle bullets, and it's just streaming and dodging. (Minoriko's spell is bullshit because it has hard bullets to dodge AND streaming), and the bullets you "stream" are slow and clumpy which means if you do it right, you could start on the left side of the screen and capture while moving only right, up, and down.
Now for earlier games
Do I even need to talk about Merlin's first nonspells?
Sakuya why do you exist
Yuuka that was a jerk move why the massive lasers
Now for ACTUAL RAGE
FUCK YOU MIDBOSS NUE I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A NO UFO RUN AND YOU FUCKED IT UP I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE I EVEN HIT THE FUCKING BOMB BUTTON -BEFORE- I GOT HIT
