The Angeles is Crushing my Soul

Ok,  so this game I think is very soul crushing.  Here's why:

As has been brought up already, side missions don't seem to help mission performance.  I've done two side missions thus far and in both cases my suspect was killed (by me) or killed himself.  Both felt like how the side missions were supposed to play out.  However, both times I did these I arrived at my next destination 'late' and in one case a POI in my case was killed (right fucking in front of me) and in another case I missed some bad guys doing something bad to someone and had a pretty harrowing end to the case as a result.  Also I'm pretty sure I ended up being forced to save a pedophile as a result of my tardiness.  FFfffffffffffffffffffffffffuckkk

Then, there's the case reviews.  It took me halfway through the traffic desk to realize how the case star system worked.  I also have no clue yet how to go review past case performance (from the main menu somewhere?).  Anyways, somewhere after the first traffic crime I noticed the hints (but not stars) at the mission review screen.  AND EVERY FUCKING TIME I have received some cryptic clue that a different line of questions would have explained something I had no clue was at work.

Next, the interrogations.  I now understand that anytime you talk to a POI it's 'interrogation mode.'  However, I was expecting more interrogations to take place in the jailhouse (like the one in the quick look).  I have only had that in jailhouse interrogation happen.  I just finished the lipstick murders.  Every fucking time my chief congratulates me on getting the guy, and the next case loads.  I seriously feel like I'm missing something here.  And that saddens my soul.  Like I literally feel there is a gross miscarriage of justice going on and instead of being straight laced and righting that particular wrong, I'm playing a cog in the machine.

But wait, there's more.  I ran over a pedestrian.  In a scripted car chase I totally fucked up some pedestrian.  And that really upset me.  I was so set on getting my man that I killed someone in a crosswalk.  Fuck.  Then there's the actual questions.  Right now my 'successful question' rate is somewhere around 40%.  Yet I'm 4-5 starring cases regularly and making my chief happy.  Plus, I use the intuition every once in a while and have now realized that just fucks you over too.  It took me a bit, but you can only use the 'lie' option when you actually have evidence to trap your witness with.  If you don't you automatically fail.  Even if you do, you have to choose the right evidence.  Anyways, if you know your clues then you'll know when you probably have evidence and when you don't.  So that option is pretty useless unless you already know the person is lying based on the facts.  So when you aren't sure about the lie option and you use intuition to remove an answer, you risk it removing the lie option which totally fucks you.  Because then your back to wondering if doubting the person will make them open up or not.  And I have used the social clue intuition exactly once.  And when I did the overwhelming majority chose doubt, and they were all wrong.  So was I.  And what am I missing, I'm 40% my way through the questions yet solving cases.  And well. 

Basically what is happening is literally in the pit of my stomach I feel I'm wronging the virtual LA.  I feel I'm making evil, not stopping evil.  And one final note.  This involves some spoilers so I'll tag the next little bit then discuss as general as possible: