Yeah we agree using third person was certainly a design oversight and we do wish be had it be first person only, but by the time we realised how much better it would have been it was too late into the jam to change it around whilst streamlining the first person with things such as the awkward headbob, it certainly would have made the map design a little less daunting as a player too.
Thank you for the feedback! We will certainly take this into consideration in future projects and maybe even this one if we choose to continue development.