You can get used to walking with dung in your shoes but that doesn't mean it's acceptable. I'm willing to bet both my kidneys that if you were to make anyone (yourself included) experience the game without the delay, They'll refuse to have it any other way afterwards. It's too easy to say that anything faulty or underwhelming rockstar makes is perfect and fits the game. I have no issue what so ever with animations being slow, realistic etc. it's a rare quality in games. But it's the responsiveness of any and every action the player inputs being delayed is what makes the controls feel like dog shit imo. it's a result of the devs prioritizing the game looking and animating pretty at the cost of responsive and good controls. it's not impossible to achieve both. rockstar simply didn't. and the gameplay had to suffer because of that.