Aiming on gamepad feels really, really bad

Aiming any non-projectile skill feels mostly RNG to me, there's no rhyme or reason to it.

ED/Contagion Witch was simply unplayable because I couldn't reliably hit the same target with both spells. Contagion would just apply to a random monster somewhere in the vicinity and the worst thing is that it's almost impossible to tell in advance which monster would that be. Fighting the last boss in Act 2 was an absolute torture since I couldn't quickly focus adds while in a bubble, literally couldn't quickly target and kill the closest enemy.

Now I'm playing a minion build and it's not that much better either, since placing Pain Offering spike is also very janky. I have to use the "manual" aiming by holding the button and moving the cursor around with R3, but it STILL doesn't work consistently since sometimes I see my character doing the casting animation and I see my mana being spent... but the spike is nowhere to be seen. The same thing goes for casting curses, frost mages' "command" ability and basically any other non-directional skill.

Today I failed a Ritual room on the 3rd floor of Sekhema Trial (or whatever it's called, the sanctum 2.0) because I couldn't command my minions to attack summoners while being chased by a swarm of serpent dudes.

I've played many other ARPGs on a gamepad and this is by far the clunkiest experience I've had with aiming abilities. Like sometimes I'd be facing a monster, press a button, and my character turns around and throws a curse behind herself at literally nobody.

Please, either fix the aim assist or give us an ability to lock and switch targets easily using the right stick.