This honestly feels like it designed to feel amazing. There are just so many moments that randomly reward the player with no recourse. This does make the time travel more likely to come up, but I love time travel so it still means that most of the game is awesome to play. The point I liked the most was Fuwamoco, just cause I had a lot of interest in fighting a boss that is so incredibly telegraphed (when swapping) multiple times with no likelihood of getting confusing to play around at all.
Also, I love that the player being familiar with other stories involving time travel does not take away from the experience. Nearly all the stories I've seen about time travel have similar mechanics but most of them establish paradoxes diffirently. Furthermore, I love Rick Sanchez and therefore have high IQ. I can absolutely imagine Cecilia purposely putting herself in that situation because I actually watch hololive from time to time. I also watched The Prestige (the one adapted as a Christopher Nolan film) but not the actual time travel Nolan movie Tenet cause I hate time travel.