Flying... wow, is it bad

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I do hope they discontinue having us fly in future content with these controls.

Let it die with Heavensward, never continue it's need please.

UPDATE: I've explored flying with a keyboard and mouse and the controls of flying are fine, but with a controller they are pretty bad and not enjoyable.

You're doing something seriously wrong because I also play on a controller and the controls are smooth as butter. All you do is press triangle to begin flying, and everything else can be done with the left and right analog sticks. Move left one forward to accelerate, and use right to go up, down, left, right and anywhere in between. You can fly without ever even having to use triangle to ascend, or circle to descend. And pressing R3 will cause mount to land, though you can interupt this process if desired, but personally I never even use R3 to land. I just steer towards the ground.

EDIT:

And this is my chief complaint about the flying controls. On controller the right analog stick controls both directional navigation and camera view. I can only use World of Warcraft's flying as a proper example on how flying felt more fluid. (and it's been so long since I've played WoW I cannot recall how it worked only that it did) Switching out of legacy controls does help however I cannot use that when on the ground, I dislike it's camera rotation.

You can use the cam to look around while flying. Let go of the acceleration, then look around with right stick.