Don't dispair - as said above, it's all about finding the right pad/product/methodology that work with your technique.
For example, on my cyclo my vette kicked my butt all the time - I did decent correction on it, but never perfect. Always frustrated me, but I chaulked it up to it just not having enough power (no matter how much pressure i used) to work with superhard clear. Then I tried gloss-it products and bam, 1 pass with the compound, 1 pass with the polish, very light pressure, and the clearcoat was absolutely perfect.
Cyclo finally kicked corvette's butt