Elden Ring - Ulcerated Tree Spirit - Review

Ulcerated Tree Spirit feels like an unused boss someone found hidden in the files of Elden Ring. The damage detection is very inconsistent especially with it's size. It mostly reminded of the Pus of Man from Dark Souls 3 but somehow worse. They really should have properly designed the hit boxes bigger and even adding some wouldn't have hurt. I understand that this boss appears multiple times in the game but why even have this design if you're going slack on consistency and wonky movements? My strategy mostly consisted of waiting for a big animation to finish then strike and the only part that gets exciting is when the boss sparks up and has spots of the arena combust but after that not much else. I think having a more hazardous arena would have benefited this fight immensely however this is still early in the game and a better version of this fight could be waiting on me somewhere. I've been having that hope for quite a few bosses actually. At least this fight was significantly better than that plant I reviewed previously.