If that stuff happened during combat encounters it would bother me, but it's always like a cool-down after you kill all the bad guys. The combat is too fast-paced and intense (on hard anyway) to keep that pace up all the time, so I think the "flow" works by having crests and troughs like that. If you don't like it though then you don't like it, whatevs. I just think it's a weird thing to focus on but some people probably think I focus on weird shit sometimes too. I recently quit Dark Souls pretty fast because I couldn't stand the campire system, and I'm sure some people think I'm weird for that.