I do no boss runs, but they keep adding things to bosses to block access to certain things which is annoying.

300 days on this last run before I decided to kill my first ever boss. Deer boss took like 6 hits total and just barely spawned in. Been to every biome fully geared, level 32 I think now.
When you start needing more iron than you can find just smacking ground it gets annoying sailing around looking for more swamps but once you get used to it, you can find it pretty easily. Didn't need to kill the deer boss, just wanted to see if I could without getting hit, pretty much stun locked it with frostner. The Elder took a few minutes but I can get iron a little easier now. Haven't bothered with the other bosses yet but I'll need to kill a couple more so I can craft all the things. I don't like being soft-locked behind things like that. Almost everything in the game can be unlocked by finding things, but then you get locked behind a boss fight to unlock a couple things that are necessary for progression.