G-give it Back T---T; !!

[Shurrikhan]

The reality is: controller holds this game back. Simply as that. Everytime they want to give us something new (and they "need" to do it every expanion) they have to remove something else since controller has hit its button limit in HW. We wont get Kaiten back if at all until like 2-3 expansions when they rip another skill out of the kit to be replaced with something else.

I can pretty comfortably and quite responsively hit 48 buttons without even losing movement control by claw-gripping a Dualshock controller, which is technically better than I can say for KB where I will occasionally be (very briefly) unable to access WASD while hitting something else and will therefore need to lock camera. Controllers don't hold us back any more than keyboard. It's just a matter of people needing to learn to use their modifier keys.

Both could have their functionality improved, to be clear, but neither are bottlenecking our available number of actions at this time (nor are they likely to for another 10-12 actions added).

Which is also a separate issue altogether from button bloat as it exists now. Present button bloat isn't a problem of having more buttons than we can responsively press, but rather just that certain procedures could provide an equal or greater amount of choice and agency without using up as many buttons as they do now.