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I completely disagree with this. I think it's the other way around. Maybe it's because I was younger when I played D2, but I think the bosses in TQ are all way too easy, whereas in D2 they were pretty dang hard. Baal wasn't really a pansy, either. He took alot of time to kill, and also had that duplicate ability. And you had to run away during the fights and recover, where in TQ you can just run around a bit until you're back to full health, easily outmanouvering the boss's attacks.
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The likelihood is that you're a better gamer now than when you first played D2. Go back and play it again. See what happens. My first experience with Baal was something like this:
Oh, they put in an event before you can fight him? Interesting...ok, so Fallen...whatever. Mummies and skellies, well, that sucks for the lack of leech targets...LE council guy *yawn*... Balrogs *yawn*... There's another wave? OH SWEET JEBUS!
*3 deaths later*
Ok, so Baal ran through the portal...time to go whoop him some. FRENZY BARB, HO!
The followup kills on Hell were similar, but involved a Charge Bolt Zon, a straight fire sorc (which was extremely easy, even after immunities were added into the game), Hammerdin...basically anything that wasn't a Druid, Assassin, or Necro (the classes I disliked). All of the toons I walked in there with could easily solo him, regardless of difficulty.
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True, there's more bosses and more different bosses in TQ. But in D2, the normal encounters are alot more difficult than they are in TQ. So it balances out. In TQ, you're just running around killing things, even those archers aren't really all that hard, until you encounter a boss. That's when it becomes difficult. In Diablo, all encounters were difficult, and you had the chance to die in each one of them. How many times, in TQ, did you actually have to run away from a group of regular enemies? Compare that to D2, where this happened every other group you met.
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I run from standard packs in TQ constantly. I never had a reason to in D2, save for kiting classes that, guess what, ran around. Honestly, I installed D2 about 3 weeks before I dusted off my TQ discs. I was bored to tears so fast, as I got a toon into Hell in about a weekend.
Seriously, I think that your skills as a gamer improved between D2 and TQ. Yes, D2 was amazingly innovative at the time. TQ trumped it significantly in mechanics and play depth.