I played a bit this weekend.
The controls, inventory menus and controls, and interface are very overwhelming. The early 'tutorial' chapter wasnt well designed IMO and way too much slow slogging on horseback (or foot) from point A to point B. I fell asleep a bunch of times during that, and I think I missed a lot of control-tutorials because it tells you what to do quickly in small letters in the top right of the screen, as you are in a gunfight. It feels the controls are 'slow'.
I have graduated to the open world. It looks better. Glad to be out of the snow storm. Still a bit overwhelming.
I felt really overwhelmed too when I started with Witcher 3, and eventually I would call that the best console game ever made.