I can confirm that FRA or MUC are *MUCH* better in every respect possible. And you don’t need to land in the country you’re going to when traveling to Europe. As long as you land in the Schenghen zone, you’re fine and they can stamp through your passport (unless you’re from one of those countries that requires a visa to go anywhere and your visa specifically doesn’t give you Schenghen zone access, then you have to land in your destination country directly) for the whole trip.

The only downside with going through Germany is it involves travel on Lufthansa at least partly aboit 99% of the time. And since both airports are pretty busy, they squeeze their flights in like sardines. Every time I flew through Munich to/from Paris, I managed to either miss or almost miss my connection (you get on average 30 mins to make it, but they do catch you exiting the plane and rush you through all the lines, unless the plane opens the front and rear doors and you exit via the rear door while they wait for you at the front one — yes, this happened to me — but even in such cases, there are SO many flights you are just bumped to the one 2 hours later, and while you’re waiting, enjoy the free coffee and pastries, or the not free but very amazing German beers, even if it is ONLY 9am there — hey, it’s 5PM somewhere!)

Hope you have good travels in the future, and yep, do try to avoid CDG changeovers. Besides, Lufthansa service is tons better than Air France.