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What mismanagement? What hijacking?
I can second the hijacking thing. Steam has its own controller input driver (?) it installs which sometimes clash with the actual drivers for the controller, which can lead to games registering input twice or not at all etc.
You can disable it but sometimes it randomly seems to re-enable itself and it's super annoying.
On the other hand though, Steam Input is really powerful for remapping inputs and setting up controller maps to use for keyboard and mouse games. I've never had trouble with it apart from with an old handheld PC that registers its built in controller as an Xbox 360 controller instead of Xbox One
That's totally fine but it should be opt in, or just prompt you when you launch the game for the first time. It doesn't ask and then actively breaks things for some users.
Yeah it could definitely be more interactive, but then it would annoy users for the entirely opposite problem. I can see the complaints now in my head: "Steam prompts me about Steam Input before every single game I play! I get it valve" or similar (you and I both know the person would be ignoring some "don't remind me" option
Exactly. And it's completely unnecessary.