The Last of Us Part 2 is one of the best playing 3rd person action games ever made. The old version of The Last of Us on PS3/PS4 is not quite as good, but still pretty dang solid. I believe the new version on PS5 has updated to be more like Part 2.
Yeah, it was a bit jarring going back to replay TLOU1 after 2. The controls are much better in the latter.
Especially some of the accessibility settings you can turn on. I definitely turned on the 'auto grab materials' setting during the rat king segment