as someone who only had the regular 64 controllers, why were manufacturers so hopped up on making an already dogshit controller worse by shaving off the handles?

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as someone who only had the regular 64 controllers, why were manufacturers so hopped up on making an already dogshit controller worse by shaving off the handles?
Handles were a controversial technology. The various Saturn controllers had no handles, neither did the SNES' Dogbone controller, and the PlayStation controller almost didn't have any.