Does the gameplay in the war within continue to be dogshit?

Let me preface this by saying I was unbelievably hyped coming into this quest. I played the game years ago and these quests weren't out and I'm very invested.

But holy shit the gameplay is making me want to stop playing.

The first mission was absolutely fire.

The second mission was just too many gimmicky and buggy mechanics.

I'm on the 4th mission now and holy shit this shit is an absolute slog to get through. Change stances to damage enemies, but the melee hotbox is jank so you miss and get hit once and stagger for 4 seconds only to roll into another attack to stagger for another 4 seconds. Hard for me to see what element an enemy is so is it cold or lightning? Oops wrong one time to get hit and staggered for 4 seconds then run away to recover shield.

Oh time to throw my glaive and zip to it oops pressed it twice cause there's 3 mobs attacking you and you got staggered oops you fell off the cliff time to reset on top of more mobs oops staggered again when resetting for another 4 seconds.

First mission was perfect. No added stupid mechanics, just move, kill and emotional.

Please tell me it's not all this. This shit just isn't fun. Actually just ruining the epic story for me cause I'm getting so annoyed