I must admit that so far this tier has been more interesting than the last one, though it is a given that the gating did quite effectively reset the race between the instances.
I hate to step in on this, but if you're talking about the mechanics that the players have to execute then Ji-Kun is probably not a fight you'll want to use as a supporting example. I also fail to see the benefit of arguing about the two sizes. They're often too different to compare.