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It's mainly because the avatars are way to fucking strong - especially compared to their weight. You can play with Ford and then it's more or less the same as Boneworks (i.e. you still get pushed back but not nearly as much).

So they port the assets over lazily, keep them the same weight, resistance, etc., and then make the new avatars twice as strong so all of the climbing and movement is easy without thinking how it fucks up the rest of the game.

Same issue with things feeling weightless - it's just that you're superhuman. Yet another bad design decision.