I keep waiting for a company to come along and offer a "pro-style" induction insert that feels like a high-end gas range. I want completely analog controls consisting of front-facing, big-ass, metal, heavy knobs whose only purpose in life is to crank up the heat when you turn them. It should draw 50 amps on a slow day. None of this glass touchscreen crap, no picking a level from 1 to 9, no beeps, no "lock mode" or LCD digits or bluetooth or any of it. This can't be that hard...
This. Especially with stovetop cooking the intuitive feel of just turning the heat up or down a bit as appropriate is huge. I've yet to find any level-based cooktop where the discrete steps are fine-grained enough to match the adjustments I want to make.
Even cheap coil stove tops allow for continuous rather than discreet adjustments, so while the pre-heating process for them takes longer than induction I'm typically able to enjoy the cooking process more overall because I have more confidence that the pan is exactly how hot I want it.
In my experience with an induction cooktop over the holidays was that it heated very un evenly, burning food on one side of the pan, while the other side was not cooking at all. It had a terrible user experience (this is obviously specific to that brand), and was not precise at all; either too hot or too cold. It did boil water quickly, though.
This sounds like an issue with either the cooktop or the pan. A proper setup heats completely evenly, that's actually one of the main selling points versus gas.