it's too easy

I've been playing Mina the Hollower and it's not clicking for me
I really hate how slow the base movement speed is. Yeah I get it, the devs want you to be burrowing constantly if you wanna go fast but you can't do that when they place anti-burrow tiles or pitfalls and I hate having to walk so much on these screens where there's nothing going on aside from basic jumps

I also hate that you're locked to 4 directions when grounded, but can move diagonally when airborne but enemies can move diagonally when they're grounded or airborne because that makes fighting flying enemies really annoying even with the throwables

Also can someone give me some actual benefits to using the daggers or hammer? They just feel awful compared to the mace and especially the boomerang