I think a lot of the people complaining about the fight length aren't actually annoyed purely at the length of the fight. There have been some decent cutaways during it, and quite a bit of story development happening around it. The fight
is long, sure. But it's the fact that the fight is long AND the release schedule is fairly slow. So it takes forever to get out of it. Once the fight is actually done, if you were to go back over and binge the fight, it would be long but I don't think it particularly overstays its welcome.
By god do I want it to end, but mostly because I want the next chapter, not because I don't like the fight