Admittedly, I've only ever seen the dub and the last time I watched the movie in full was nearly a decade ago, so there may have been some elements that were lost in translation and others lost to memory.

With that said, I don't think Chihiro needed to know where she fit in the past, because, as she and practically every spirit knew, neither she nor her parents belonged there. Her parents, in the context of the story, weren't her connection to the past either, but to the future. At the beginning of the film, her parents were much more enthusiastic about the future (i.e. moving) than she was. Rescuing them wasn't about keeping her progenitors alive out of filial duty, but about rescuing her and her parents' collective future to live freely as human beings.

The only direct connection to Chihiro's past (established through a beautifully done albeit unconvincing Deus ex machina) is Haku and he's the one who later tells her to move forward. I'm not sure what class of spirit Haku is aside from being a river spirit, but almost everyone who operates the bathhouse, including Yubaba, are yokai and it seems they're lot in life/death is to keep the bathhouse running for eternity without change or reprieve. The yokai either don't have agency to begin with or trade what agency they have to remain perpetually employed. Chihiro, on the other hand, possesses and develops her agency as she tries to find a way to rescue her parents.

In addition, "senseless obstacle jumping" an apt description for what Chihiro had to go through . Various mythologies often depict the gods and spirits of nature as capricious as they are mighty and skillful. I suspect that Japanese kami/yokai are no different: to be revered but also cautiously interacted with, if at all, lest you invite their more "playful" nature.