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unsolicited advice
If you ever go back to it, using the unbreakable strength charm (get the money for this from doing the second trial in the arena a couple of times) with quickslash makes the THK fight considerably quicker, and it helps with Radiance too. Regardless of your skill level, by the time you have a chance to beat Radiance you'll breeze through THK so fast it won't be a considerable amount of time. Radiance herself is a fight that I found to be much easier when I approached it very slowly and methodically, first learning how to survive in each phase without dealing damage before I started trying to work in more places to DPS.
And you can always go for Nightmare King Grimm too, that fight is pure gasoline and it's super challenging and worthwhile right from the start.
I find THK to be a very easy boss, it's rare that i don't beat it. HOWEVER, i do not think that is OPs point. In any case, it wouldn't be my critique of that fight.
Having to do an easy miniboss first every time before i get to work on the actual challenge i care about is a waste of my time.
It's just how it is. This would have easily been mitigated if Radiance would just work like any other dream boss. I get there are plot reasons why i have to fight THK again before i get to dreamnail it, but it still means i have to redo a time consuming task i have already achieved and that has become really unrewarding over and over again until i get nauseated by it. Some amount of that kind of thing is ok-ish, but i always found this approach fairly pointless, it doesn't have the same payoff that beating a hard boss or a tricky plattforming segment delivers. I also do not find it adds significantly to the payoff of these challenges when they get obstructed by routine rote tasks.
More importantly, beating THK shouldnt be turned into a repetitive rote task. It cheapens that part of the lore.
Edit: After reading the post upthread about the same situation, i get why people would disagree on this
Yeah you're right, it doesn't feel great. But if it's a matter of difficulty rather than satisfaction there's steps to mitigate the difficulty so you can still get to see the true ending, and I wanted to help OP with that!