Not to mention located in the worst possible spot on the controller.
I don't know, I thought the controller was comfortable enough, but it could have been a bit bigger for my hands, the C-stick needed a larger surface area for the thumb, and I was never crazy about the face buttons. It wasn't terrible for most games, but it wasn't as easy to move between them all with minimal thumb movement as it is on other controllers. Not a bad controller by any stretch (save the D-pad) but I'm not as head over heels for it as a lot of people.