For those thinking of giving up, please consider trying ECWolf first. It’s modest quality-of-life improvements really made it much more fun for my older self to keep going.
Specifically, ECWolf has an auto-map lined with the wall textures, yet it can be overlaid and auto-rotate. It’s sort of halfway between Doom and ROTT’s auto-map.
ECWolf also offers modern strafing and locking the Y-axis for a very familiar WASD+mouse configuration.
