How about when you choose to draw a steel sword to fight these crazy strong wolf guardians a Leshen summons, only to have it constantly switch back to a silver sword? There's no control over what weapon you want to use - this auto select or auto sheath is incredibly annoying and is fucking me over in combat.
Yep, that is another great example of how screwed you are in combat.
I'd like to add, the mechanics behind this make putting points into "Arrow Reflection" useless. I've actually left melee combat range before, sword auto-goes away, just to have a mob start shooting me with arrows that I can't block because now I'm "out-of-combat-sword-out-Geralt" or something. Anybody else experience this?
Yep, that is another great example of how screwed you are in combat.