Battlefront 1 (2004) campaign is so bad I'm speechless

I have played Battlefront 2 and DICE ones in the past. A lot. I got the Battlefront Classic edition and decided to give Battlefront 1 campaign a go, in hard mode.

Why. How is it possible to be so bad. First mission are ok-ish, then they just drop the act and are plain conquest matches. Enemies' damage and health is brutal whereas your clones are both tremendously stupid and weak. They throw droidekas that seem to be impossible to kill for an AI clone for it to wipe a squad per second. For some reason when you use a jetpack, droids get posessed by a Dragon Ballesque fussion of John Marston and Arthur Mortan and put a bucket of bullets in your chets before the jetpack gas does even ignite.

The only way of winning these matches are the cheesy ways. You either mash the spawn button and run with the jetpack to steal an enemy outpost or vehicle or the match is already over. "Ah yes, the legend of that clone who did a suicide rush but somehow always made us win".

When I got to the Kashyyk mission I tried stealing enemy tanks, which is surprisingly easily doable, but then droids would still melt me like I'm just a schizo clone pretending to drive while making engine sounds with my mouth. I finally surrendered and tuned down the difficulty to medium. Now enemies are useless and they don't even use their vehicles!!! There's no inbetween. You either pick medium for absolutely pathetic enemies or hard for absolute hell. I don't know what happens if I put it on easy, will droids just surrender at the start? At this difficulty rates I expect every mission to last 7 seconds before they drop the cinematic of kid Anakin destroing the orbital bot station or something.