Sure, that's fun for some not others. It's fine it's not like you're a bad person for preferring a bit more direction.
There are multiple ways through stuff and it's hard to miss anything hugely important. Pretty sure there's even a couple of entire areas you don't need to do. Plus a few more if you stumble on some speedrunning tech.
From memory there's usually 2 ways "forward" at most times, and you'll do a lot of backtracking anyway so I wouldn't stress about being on the right path or not. It can help to have a notepad beside your computer jotting down stuff to explore later if you have a bad memory like I do.
Sure, that's fun for some not others. It's fine it's not like you're a bad person for preferring a bit more direction.
There are multiple ways through stuff and it's hard to miss anything hugely important. Pretty sure there's even a couple of entire areas you don't need to do. Plus a few more if you stumble on some speedrunning tech.
From memory there's usually 2 ways "forward" at most times, and you'll do a lot of backtracking anyway so I wouldn't stress about being on the right path or not. It can help to have a notepad beside your computer jotting down stuff to explore later if you have a bad memory like I do.