No. Fuck that story.
Please give me examples of yours if you don't mind.
Alright. Well, it's a somewhat beginning-of-story level fight, but most of how it goes is that I have a rather detailed magic system that is partially based on D&D. I start off with a POV chapter explaining what one of the major side-characters are doing as the village they are living in is being attacked. You can think of this guy as something like a druid.
He starts off his pre-battle preparations casting a speed spell on himself, and another spell that turns his arm to wood. The wooden arm is in order to let it later receive other spells, the best of which is one called "greater control wood," which allows him to temporarily turn his arm into a stretch-arm that also has super strength having combined these two spells.
He uses this spell to quickly take out an enemy mage, then whips it about to knock two enemy warriors off their feet and those warriors are quickly taken out by the druid's comanions.
After this, he's running about to find the next battlefield and encounters another mage who just burned one of his allies to death. He rushes the mage while using his arm as a shield, and gets bathed in fire while he's charging. He then proceeds to win with a good old-fashioned ground-and-pound beat down. After this, he treats his wounds with a prepared healing item, using an excessive amount in the process because, in this tense situation, he doesn't have time for measurements.
After that, an enemy assassin with a bow finds him. He can't do anything about the enemy's range, so he runs off to the safe zone. His trip to the safe zone is a fight for survival in and of itself, and he winds up using most of his remaining significant resources in the process including the rest of his healing items, at which point the fact he'd overused it to treat his burns comes back to bite him a little. He just barely makes it to the safe-zone when one member of the main cast appears.
This is one of the main-cast showing off their power scenes, and the arrows shot at her literally shatter against her skin. At this point, she just runs at high speed at the enemy and tackles the guy and rips his throat out. (She has a divine beast style cultivation, which means she has the highest physical stats of anyone but doesn't have much in the way of magic or technique.)
In the meantime, the actual MC of the story is trying to work together with a dryad to utilize their power. The MC basically has a lot of mana but not much knowledge of how to make use of it, while the dryad has the ability to control all plant matter and needs the power and some direction in order to control it as well as extend the range of effect. They have worked out that the most efficient way to use their combined power would be to have the tree roots come up from the ground in order to trip up the enemy and then just allow the ally warriors to take out the downed enemies. After this side battle that took up the majority of the fight scene in order to set the stage, the MC puts the plan I just outlined into action.
So, basically, the idea is that the powers are more of a means to an end. There is more of a focus on ways in which the characters influence the battlefield rather than just showing off that someone is powerful. You need for there to be some sort of realistic demonstration of skill and cleverness in there somewhere. In order to do that, it's far more effective if you limit the characters' resources in some way.
In the case of the divine beast maind-cast character, she is likely the least limited among the cast, so she gets handled a little differently. She is outrageously powerful, but the divine beast she is based on is Amashilama, a divine leech from Mesopotamian lore. As such, she is incredibly durable and can heal, but there are very specific conditions to use her powers which make it more difficult to use. She also has a craving for blood, which creates it's own problems. And, in order to use her healing powers, she literally has to first drink blood and then vomit it back up again (acting in accordance with her legend from the lore.)
