@textrovert new stick setup does an excellent job capturing his body and skiing however as I've noted in the past, I don't like the extreme WA effects on the approaching terrain. That is why I've been using the W (Wide) mode instead of the wider SuperView on my GoPro Hero 8. In any any case, any of these setups is less than ideal where another person holding a camera with a more normal angle lens will always look more natural.
The wide angle is completely up to you. With any 360 degree camera, you have full flexibility on how wide and even how distorted you want it to be. It is not a quantized set of options. you just pinch and set where you like it to be. So this should not be holding you back from 360 cameras.
The flexibility makes them blow away regular action cameras. For example- one mounted on your helmet can replace multiple standard action cameras- no need to have one forward, backward, left, right etc.
Also, you miss nothing. With a standard action camera, If something interesting happens where your standard camera was not pointed or if your framing was accidentally bumped, you can't recover it in editing. With 360 camera, it is all recorded and no need to worry about if you got it or if it was "pointed" in the right direction. Follow cam is effortless. No need to look at the other skier. Just ski naturally.