God why does Steam randomly decide whatever controller I'm using randomly gets some steam input controller binds. "Oh you want like a screenshot shortcut, a keyboard shortcut, volume controls and -- Oh, big picture mode!" no I fucking don't and idk if it's whenever they push an update for it, or if idk some new community settings (??? which ??? I don't understand???) get voted in for default for my device but it'll change, and then I gotta go find the menu to remove all of them. This only happens once a year? Every 6 months? But I'll be smashing coin on fightcade and it'll be like "OH, ON SCREEN KEYBOARD???" and when I go to turn it off the menu will be just different enough to drive me crazy.
I hate that just turning steam input off is a recipe for shit to just... randomly not work because devs are so reliant it now. It's infuriating. I hate the fucking Big Picture menu like I'm not on a fucking consol, yet it's designed like one. It's designed like a complicated, powerful menu that you'll get familiar with because it'll be so useful.
But I'm not going to use it for anything useful.
I'm not on a steam deck, I'm not on a living room PC, MOST PEOPLE AREN'T PLAYING LIKE THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR A SECOND MAGIC FUNTIME PLAY COMPUTER WHY DO I HAVE TO DIVE INTO THIS WEIRD ALTERNATIVE UI TO BE LIKE "plz don't put random hotkeys on my controller I beg you to please just do the bare minimum to keep my controllers compatible". I got a keyboard and mouse in front of me! I'm in my lane! I don't need this shit!
It's so infuriating because as a dev, it's one more less thing to worry about when it comes to controller compatibility, but as a user, every time I have to interact with any of those menus I feel like time is being stolen from me. I hate it. Valve designs for the audience they dream to have and not the audience that actually uses their software. It's working, Steam Decks are selling and they're not a bad deal but I feel like how I felt when TF2 became this crazy microtransaction gam that was successful. Yeah, people liked it, but Valve never operates with any respect for the users and players they already have.
I fucking hate Valve.