Yes, my hate for that boss fight is in no way a recommendation against the game itself. To the contrary, I would recommend it to everybody! In this regard the situation is indeed comparable to Risen, which I would also recommend to everybody in spite of the ridiculous end fight there....
In fact I am in my second playthrough of HFW right now after replaying HZD in between.
I am trying on highest difficulty level. In my first playthrough I switched to story mode for some boss fights. This is not possible on highest difficulty. So it will be interesting for me, if I quit at one of the boss fights or manage to somehow get through all of them...