I started on the OT last summer.
My advice: take it slow. Just a drum beat at first.
Then plug your dfam in there, to put some effect to it.
Just with this you already have a world to go about.
Start using the slider to move from one sound to the other.
Often I jam just with the OT for a while. When I host events, for instance, I just go with the OT and keep it really low-fi. Nothing connected, it’s quite limiting but then I can explore how to create melody, minimizing a sample to a few milliseconds so it works like a wavetable synth.
The OT can be many thing and you’ll have to discover what it is for you. Is it more an instrument like a sample based synth? Or more like a sampler, or simply playing long backing track? Or a looper? Or simply like a mixer with 2 synth coming in?
When I read someone not liking the OT what I mostly see is that they didn’t find what the OT is for them yet, since it can be anything it will become frustrating at one point.