Very well put. I was also annoyed by how the game does not navigate you at all so you have to figure out everything on your own.
Especially the mid parts, where the game has these" horror sessions" where you have to wait until the whole session is played out. Instead of uncut session where we have to endure the horror for few minutes straight, game could lead us to that.
I also think there are way too much objects that are put for "inspect" . I think it was obsolete since it had nothing to do with story or gameplay.
The rest of the part I had problems with, you have already mentioned it so I dont think i will elaborate on that.