You're not wrong. I do have a small group of friends I play almost every Gears game with. I would be sad to give up access to that. My hope is that Gears 4 on PC will have a controller-only playlist that mixes in with the Xbox One folks, similar (but not quite the same as) to how GTAV will disable the aim assist on gamepad unless you play in a server where all other players are also playing gamepad with aim assist enabled. I mean, I will use my keyboard+mouse wherever its allowed in that scenario, but I don't mind stepping down to the gamepad when I have to.
That type of feature isn't confirmed, so again, you're right. I'll wait and see for sure.
Exactly. I hope that they (MS) do give developers a way to detect that and have that feature in the system. Seeing as KB/M support will come to Xbox One at some point (I presume it will happen with Scorpio), I think it will be handy to have and another way to give users choice. Granted, they can be "evil" with this but I do see that they would want to enforce it to be Xbox One controllers only for it, as I know PC gamers use a myriad of controllers. *shrug*