That's... kinda the entire point?
The whole point of the game is that you're so strong that you have to hold back your movement and move in a very weird and specific way to avoid hurting anybody. It's supposed to be a very difficult game too. I'll give you the attacks interfering with movement though; I thought of it as a "punishment" for letting the attacks trigger, but in practice even I felt it was a little weird and sometimes frustrating....