It’s so good if you ignore

the price

Which is fair considering the features

the symmetric thumbsticks

Which some of us prefer.

the awkward trackpads

Which are the biggest selling point of the controller, if you don’t want trackpads an 8BitDo has almost the same features.

and the fact it only works on Steam games.

That’s not a fact, in fact it’s quite wrong. The controller works outside of steam normally, it’s just that it’s mapped to common desktop inputs which are less than useful for games butake total sense in a world where it’s meant to be used plugged to a PC and you might need to click your way through to open Steam. But there are open source programs to map the inputs to a controller which is essentially what SteamInput does. At least that’s what the OG controller did and from the reviews of the new one seems to be exactly the same.

And before you say “but you have to install a third party tool” that’s also true for other controllers if you want full features.