If you’re not sure of how useful the left trackpad is for not only scrolling in desktop mode or on older PC games, I would also like to mention that the Steam Community that you can use others layouts can sometimes make the left track pad so so so much more useful. I found a picture that shows just how many things you can fit into this useful part of the layout. I found out about it while I was playing some older games on the Deck with the help of the EmuDeck community.
I just wanted a D-Pad on the left of the old controller.
In fact, just throw out the touch pad on the left altogether.
The touch pad is fucking amazing… but I don’t see a use case where you want two of them.
If you’re not sure of how useful the left trackpad is for not only scrolling in desktop mode or on older PC games, I would also like to mention that the Steam Community that you can use others layouts can sometimes make the left track pad so so so much more useful. I found a picture that shows just how many things you can fit into this useful part of the layout. I found out about it while I was playing some older games on the Deck with the help of the EmuDeck community.
Have you used the steam deck?
There’re quite a few controller layouts where the left pad is put to good use
Valve probably also don’t want to split the controller layouts contributed by the community either