Dragons are awesome. And yeah, I hate it when games use them as just another boss fight. They're supposed to be powerful, majestic, nigh-immortal, and above all, intelligent, with a touch of well-deserved arrogance and a bit (or more than a bit) of greed. I approve of the dragons of, say, Divinity 2 or the Kolmar series of books. I rather didn't like the ones of, for example, dragon age, where despite the name all they were were another boss fight.
And since I like and admire them, I really hate killing them