You may not get completely over it for a while yet, and hopefully this pain will continue burning you and prompting you to make sure you have multiple redundancy backups for the rest of forever XD

If the compass is meant to stay on screen, the bar compass will be more convenient for players and also won't occupy so much hud space. If you want more realistic make them keep having to dig the handheld compass out of their inventory :D

_{some people will love that and others will get really annoyed XD}