Demon Form broken by cut scenes

Starting a thread to articulate a frustration I have playing end game with demon form.

There are a few bosses that have mandatory, unskippable cutscenes, that interrupt demon form.

So, I enter the boss fight with 0 demon flame stacks.

For example: the elevator in the iron citadel fight. I took the elevator down. I stood in the corner for 100 seconds using my life recoup / infernal flame to build up stacks. That's a minute and a half of no gameplay because I had to ride an elevator.

Another example: the citadel boss fight replay where he severs the train between phase 1 and phase 2. I have to spam my curse to get my HP regen up to 1500 life /s to just barely make it to phase 2 without losing demon flame during the cut scene.

Another example: The boss fight from act 3 where you're surrounded by shield people throwing chaos waves. Entering the replay, map version of that fight causes you to enter a scripted "walk into the boss arena" animation that removes demon form and resets stacks. I then have to spend the next 1-2 minutes staying alive to rebuild the ability to hurt the boss.

These situations are especially aggravating on citadel fights that I spent a while setting up with the right tablets for waystone drop rate.

Solution option 1: Pause demon flame degradation during boss cut scenes. It will let me play these bosses instead of avoiding them entirely.

Solution 2: Allow cut scenes to be skipped or bypassed. I am guessing this would not be an ideal solution for you since you'll want to manage the player experience in these moments.

Thanks for listening to my rant. I'm hopeful you'll see this, as I want to play demon form and not have to skip certain boss fights because of cut scenes breaking my ascendancy.