Picked one up during the winter sale, but I think I'm gonna have to send it back. For accuracy's sake, I use the tip of my thumb rather than the ball to move the right trackpad. After 30 minutes or so of having it bent like that, it starts to hurt.
It's a shame, after calibrating it just right, I really enjoyed using it.
With the possible exception of mouse regions, the controller is tracking the relative position of the spot that is being touched.
Using the tip of your thumb instead of the pad should not make that any more accurate.
And if you feel that you need to use the controller like that, I'd guess that you have the sensitivity of the touchpad set far too high.
I would also say that the most important thing for comfort with the controller is setting the mouse rotation correctly.
For me, having that slider set all the way to the right is the most natural movement for my thumb to make when turning.
You will probably also find that whatever you consider to be "just right" at the moment is going to change.
When I go back to the first games that I played using the controller, I am always surprised that I even managed to finish the game with a profile set up that way.
Yeah, I used to do this for the exact same reason. Then I realized having a high trackpad sensitivity is a better solution. Setting it to 20 ticks and then adjusting it to your preference through the in-game settings adds a lot of resolution to aiming on the pad, which makes it much more forgiving when you rest your thumb naturally. Then it's just a matter of getting thumb tilts into muscle memory. Worth noting that I use the trackpad exclusively, and I feel its totally viable when configured that way, but it's all a matter of giving it some time to sink in.
Using high sensitivity with an input device is favoring speed over accuracy.
The more physical movement you have to make for any on-screen movement, the more accurate you can be with it.
However it is recommended that you reduce any in-game mouse sensitivity to the minimum and adjust sensitivity on the controller.
And the opposite is true for mouse-like joystick inputs. There, the in-game gamepad sensitivity should be set to the maximum available option.