the way the camera was set up to be behind your character rather than above it and zoomed out far made it feel like i'm actually fighting and not just playing chess
The camera is super adjustable. You can adjust the hieght and all kinds of other things in the options. It is very easy to get the camera like it was in 1.0. Don't say you miss things that are still in the game.

I certainly like the vision of 1.0 more. It's very sad that they chose to re-cut that gem instead of polishing it.
No, it's not sad at all. That's nostalgia talking, not truth. All 1.0 zones were barren empty spaces for the most part. Yes, it made the world feel bigger, but a bigger world is pointless if there's no purpose to 99% of it. Exploring wasn't even worth it except for a handful of landmarks because one corner of a zone looked the same as another. in 2.0, yes, I can understand people feeling like things are a bit too tight, but that's because everywhere you go you see something different. the tradeoff is worth it.

On the whole all of ARR's areas are far better, even if there were some nice things in the 1.0 areas.