I bought one years ago and it sat unused in a drawer for like a decade or whatever until I got a Steamdeck. Now I use the Steam controller every day, and it’s by far the greatest controller I’ve ever used. It’s the only controller ever that I’ve enjoyed more than mouse and keyboard, and I’m a PC gamer so that’s saying something.
I like it even more than the Steamdeck controls themselves, because I like to have that docked to my large TV, and the hand feel is better for me with the smaller controller.
I’m just hoping someone makes another controller like it before this one breaks, because the Xbox controller is not even on the same level. Nothing compares to the Steam controller.
Good questions. Those problems are all exacerbated after two giant “competing” corporations merged into one even larger corporation.