75/1.8 is not for me (family/enthusiast photographer)

It's just about incomprehensible to me that anyone would buy a lens with an effective FOV of 150mm and then discover that it's too long for the use described in the OP. Did this realisation come as a shock?

As for "too sharp", this makes a refreshing change from all the posts agonizing about substandard optics and "bad copies" that aren't sharp enough. Application of Vaseline or similarly viscous unguents used to be the solution to this problem: it's advisable to fit a filter.

Roy