Honestly I'm pretty frustrated with the Steam Controller

I am partially asking for help here really in case I am doing something stupid and venting a bit because it seems like everyone loves this device and actually my experience is it's actually not as good as a "normal controller".

For me personally a controller should be mostly plug and play and not require too much faffing around, so far I have experienced much faff and having to give up in getting it to work.

Example game, Caravan Sandwitch, straight up didn't work with the steam controller, no inputs worked at all, when I switched back over to my 8 bit do, all worked flawlessly.

More recently I have started playing Jedi Fallen Order, now it seems to pick up the SC as a keyboard/mouse so some inputs work but the game is not playable, Steam input is enabled, again turning on my 8 bit do controller everything works perfectly. Am I doing something wrong here?

Really that's my experience in a nutshell, why is this device more expensive and supposedly more flexible and yet less reliable?

I think I didn't realise it didn't have XInput support built in and used Steam input for this.

My main gripe really is that it just seems _worse_ that a traditional controller for pickup and play

/Rant and I appreciate I may be burnt to the ground for this lol