Is there some secret to making the combat in Witcher 3 fun?

Everyone said the combat was great compared to Witcher 2 (which was meh) and Witcher 1 (which was awful.) I'm desperately trying to find the combat fun, but all I can do is find it frustrating. I've been playing on the 2nd hardest difficulty and combat is just… endlessly frustrating. It honestly feels like every single fight is "roll around in circles while mashing mouse 1 and food/drink." Hell, a werewolf fight in the second area is literally exactly that – you just slug him harder than he slugs you and you win. Yay? The camera is frequently the worst enemy – locking onto enemies completely changes how Geralt moves and makes it impossible to keep track of other enemies, and since Geralt is often heavily outnumbered… it just creates more problems than it solves.

Is there some way of making the combat more Dark Souls-y? I mean, literally all CDPR had to do was carbon copy the Dark Souls combat system and they have a perfect 10/10 game on their hands. FromSoft figured the "third-person hacky-slashy fantasy game" combat formula out four years ago – all literally any developer has to do is just copy it. Every single attack has weight, rolling is important and can be punished (both the player vs enemies and enemies punishing the player), and just… it's fucking perfect. Is there some mode or mod that will change combat to be more like that? Is there a mod that will at least change the camera to be like that?

It's actively preventing me from enjoying the game. I fucking love the game… right up until a quest forces me to engage in combat, at which point the game stops being fun and starts being absolutely fucking infuriating. Hell, the entire reason I'm posting this is because I'm so fucking pissed at the garbage combat system and hoping there's a mod or way of configuring things that allow combat to be fun, because I don't want to play the game on "story mode" where combat is basically a formality. But I feel like that's going to be my only choice, if there's no way of improving it somehow.

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Is there some secret to making the combat in Witcher 3 fun?