Anyone upset, like me, about the conversation change to like reading an adventure book and choosing an "action" as much as what you are saying? It makes me feel seperate from my character, like I am co9ntrolling a manakin rather than it being me.

Yeah, if I go through the dialogue options it feels like I'm reading a badly written roleplay emote from someone. I mean, this isn't even indirect speech, it's very vague and kind of awful at times. But that's because most likely the dialogue was written without choices in mind, so they're trying their best to keep them vague. That's why maybe using direct speech by using quotes and seperating actions would've been too much for them.