Interesting, I did feel as though the camera is killing me as often as my bad play. At the moment I am finding it a bit frustrating, but also not crazy about how many off shoots and "wrong ways" there are to go so early, that you know you should go down for loot and that, but at the same time I'm not nearly got the hang of the game enough yet to be doing them. Feel as though it's thrown me in at the deep end a bit and it has, as you say, led to a bit of frustrating slog instead of fast faced fun. (an issue with a lot of games lately tbf, or maybe just a problem with how I play games and hate missing things!)
I probably should aim for that regular forwards momentum and not worry about missing out on the side stuff as most of it seems pretty pointless anyway (memories worth tiny amounts of XP and sometimes customizable lightsaber bits that don't seem to have any actual purpose). It's the completionist in me though, you have to go all the wrong ways before you go the right way!