None of these fights were hard.
"b-but Horrigan h-h-has 999 h-it points a-an-d ten i-in a-a-all SPECIAL st-ats 🥺"
Unless your build sucks or you went to the oil rig at a low level, this should not matter. I was able to kill most of Granite's squad and my companions in a single turn so I could 1v1 Horrigan. Nobody who went to the oil rig who knew what they were doing struggled against Horrigan.