Nah, smaller guitars are just fine. The biggest difference I've noticed is the tuning tolerance is much tighter. Other than that they're fantastic, and that's not really an annoyance as much as an "oh this is different".

Jaguars are friggin awesome guitars. The new Player ones with H-S is probably my favorite configuration (humbucker at bridge, single coil at neck).

Ibanez has a few short scale guitars that are current and not of kid quality. The Paul Gilbert one looks pretty cool.

https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/pgmm21_2y_01.html

and

https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/pgmm31_02.html

They're both 22.2" scale, even shorter than my 22.75". They made a Iceman short scale last year or so ago as well. Can probably find it on reverb.