Okay I think I sorted it out, just gotta leave the free-aim alone so it still aims ahead and up, and hit and hold right trigger and y right after letting go of a grapple point to hit the next one. It works, but it's still a horribly and needlessly clumsy solution for something pretty much every other game with this feature solved 20 years ago with one button press.

Thankfully, not enough to scuttle an otherwise excellent game.

Auto-grapple with ZR would have been fine for grapple points (which are rare) but you often grapple unto the spider magnet sections and for those it's really nice to be able to aim at which part of it you wanna grapple.

https://www.anaitgames.com/articulos/mercurysteam-empleados-condiciones-trabajo

Depressingly relatable. That's why I don't like the way this industry is build upon temporary contracts

Depressingly unrelatable to me. I dont understand a word...

Try to use Google translate

No thanks. You could have just summed it up in your post.

It seems Dread was awful to work on just like Prime was almost 20 years ago. With the former, Nintendo eventually stepped in and made a huge reorganization, but it's unlikely they'd do anything similar with Mercury Steam.

From what I can make out it's like construction, to give an example it's like the engineering and construction industry here in the UK (using the UK as I don't know if it's the same where everyone else is), most people aren't fully employed by a company they're only contracted to do a certain task on a project such as the plumbers do the plumbing and so on. When your task is done your contract is fulfilled and you move on in most industries I'm aware of temp workers aren't really credited and you're often aware of that from the beginning for example my name won't come up if you look up who built the Shard in the UK or the thousand other workers and engineers who worked there at the time you can however have who ever was in charge give you a reference for future jobs.

The part on needing to work on 25% of the project on one hand sounds a bit much but on the other hand the are cases in the past of someone doing one small task and then going on to claim they were integral to a product, project or someone's success so I can see why something like that would be added into a contract.

Well they don't own MS unlike Retro.

Anyway, apart from that unfortunate business, still going marvellously. I beat the 3rd and 4th bosses, both tough but I only died a couple of times on each before claiming victory.

The story sequence with

Clever way to completely sidestep and counteract the Other M problem.

You could easily have had both though; when aiming, hit ZR to grapple to a specific spot, but if you're not aiming, default to an autograb. Simple fix.