The LORE behind Panoptes was cool and interesting. That goes for most other underrated bosses in this game. But Panoptes wasn’t a boss, it was set-piece. The only times it is directly interacting with the player is when you shoot it in the face. Bungie could’ve turned the mission into a fight to disable the Infinite Forest itself by shooting some Vex power cores or something instead of Panoptes and no one would care. Summoning adds and applying a DoT to players aren’t boss mechanics, those are gameplay elements layered over a building-sized enemy waving his arms around to signal when those things happen.