The current era remakes are just different styles of games than anything released before the original RE4. IMO the things you say you don’t like are part of what make this game fun and great. But plenty of people feel the way you do. There’s no wrong answer here.

Btw, just in case you give it another try, some tips:

• don’t kill every zombie/enemy, some are easy to avoid
• don’t burn every zombie body. You can run around the crimson heads (the zombies who come back) usually
• if a pool of blood appears under a zombie when it dies, it won’t come back as a crimson heads, you don’t need to burn it
• a zombie killed with a headshot won’t come back
• most guns will head shot at a close range if you aim upward. The range is different for each gun. Pistol sucks at this but shotgun is reliable.

Sorry to say it, but if you’ve already found online opinions about what distros to use and what to avoid, you’re just going to find the same thing here.