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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Elvenstar32 on 2024-08-28 17:21:43+00:00.
I've been experimenting with a lot of games that typically dont work well with a regular controller set up and I've been pretty diappointed with most official layouts despite devs often claiming that they're putting extra effort into making the steam deck experience better.
It usually boils down to mapping WASD to left thumbstick, mouse to right thumbstick and maybe a mouse click on a trigger. Trackpads are at least often acknowledged but in the case of euro truck simulator 2, that wasnt even mapped on their official layout when their menu is mouse dependent...
Back buttons are rarely assigned any function and radial menus might as well not exist. Even in community layouts it seems few people look past getting basic function going.
Playing Stellaris with a radial menu to access a lot of the game's function makes it a lot nicer and smoother to play and games like Against the Storm or Civ 6 also benefit from some additional tweaking as the dev layouts leave so much to be desired.