Agreed agreed agreed.
The gauntlets would be cool if it was in an area that's meant to be like, a test of your combat skill and you keep coming back to progress further as you power up (or skill up) not when it's just to progress through an optional area. Or when it's to get to an optional boss that you have to fight the gauntlet for Everytime.
It's like they saw the excess of the Pantheon in HK and went "The whole game should be this actually"