Is It a Baby Lovel for Baby?

i didn't really feel the need to optimise at any point, like switch em around for different bosses or anything like that. It would have been nice to at least feel some like, you know, growth and strength in the character. And even with that, when i'm going back to the areas that yd start the game in, it still took me, like, roughly the same amount of hits to kill the the same bag gueyes,. That it took me to kill out of the gates and why? I think that was intentional.