Thank you for your feedback and you are totally right, the automatic dodge was unfair at times especially if you weren't as focused on the top left to know when its coming because of everything else happening on the screen.
I think your alternative design is spot on and it would have leaned very well into the limitation. Have left click to fire and right click to dodge.
This is why I wanted to do game jams, to learn what people like and what people dont like, as well as finding out what I have learnt along the way