Same thing happened to my 3DS analogue thingy (it's not really a stick), I just use the jaggy plastic bit and stop playing when it hurts my thumb too much!
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends' machines.
That's your use case. For me email is for receiving notifications from services I use (which demand an email address), I can't remember the last time I sent an email!
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you're only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it's a bargain (like any PC).
Did we really need an article saying "I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot"? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that's the one to go for? Or perhaps it's the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
“After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone.”
This quote is from 1982 and yet we all still fall into the same trap today
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it's usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking "how did this ever work!?"
I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard