Aye. A proper Shinigami battle was long overdue, especially after the endless battles against those water brothers. The summon fights certainly were mostly stupid and suffered greatly from lack of real action, probably exactly due to the difficulty of balancing and pacing such fights (as the question why attack the summons instead of the summoner never got answered). And it looks like Ichigo can only fight properly against Hollows and other Shinigami, anyway...