Yes, that's totally normal. My boy hated swaddle. Everyone told us tt it'll help to calm baby down but my baby wld cry so hard and non-stop if we swaddled him up. It started when he was just 3-4wks old so we stopped swaddling him then. And nth else worked to make him sleep except for me to latch him on. Carrying and rocking didnt work at all, his automatic rocker was a huge waste of money and he outright rejected pacifier. So yes, first 3 months were exhausting for me as the only way tt he cld sleep was to latch, day naps and night time, I was literally on the bed round the clock. The only other way he'll slp on his own was in the car tt there were a few times we were at our wits' end and drove ard for an hour just to make him sleep!
But somehow aft he reached 3 months, he started to learn to sleep on his own. I started to give him bottle. He wld whine and make some noises, flip and turn and not long aft we wld find him sleeping. Sometimes he wld cry but I left him to cry a lil and soon he slept. Though, I still need to latch him most of the time to sleep at 3-4 months he started to be able to slp on his own for some of his daytime naps. Now at 6 months, I only latch him to sleep at night.
Don't worry, babies will learn to sleep on their own one day, some earlier, some later. Just let him sleep the way he's comfortable with for now cz baby is still learning to adapt to his env.