Ahhh, I get what you mean now! Yeah, I agree on that part then. There is a lot of fast stuff that you don't get much opportunity to really watch. Although having said that, I still remember pretty much all of their animations but that's probably just because of all the insane levels of equipment gear farming I did to platinum the game. FFXIII is simply a really fast battle system which has pros and cons to it for sure.

I definitely agree FFXV is worse on that front for the reasons you mention.

I can't remember much of FFXIII's camera in all honesty, but I will say that I find the cameras in around 50% of the games I play to be at least a little annoying, so it wouldn't shock me if it is indeed annoying and I've just tuned it out like I have with every other game. xD

I might be misremembering, but don't the buff items drop more often when you're playing poorly (1 star rating) rather than when you're playing well? I think it was some kind of handicap thing to help players who kinda suck. But again, might be misremembering. Perhaps it was for other kind of buffs than XP, too.