If you use WASD to move in standard, you can perhaps try this setting

Change to legacy
Set A and D key to turn camera left and right (instead of move left and right)
Set your character to auto face mob when using action

I did something like that, and it feels 99% like standard (accept it tries to move out of a wall instead of running into a wall when it hits it), but i do not have issue with back pedalling anymore