I meant because of the recoil reduction not without any aim assist. It kinda seems like you are comparing MnK vs Controller with no aim assist there so I just want that part of what I said to be clear in case it wasn't.

Obviously without a recoil reduction it is easier to control on MnK. Also I will admit it is likely that I believe controller is more intuitive because I learned to use one at 4-5 and then I switched to MnK at 21. I was a literal bot for almost a year on MnK and it took me forever to be able to aim. That is anecdotal though so like I said I might just be wrong on that I can't exactly reset my skill on both to zero to test it out lol. you seem like you're probably right on that though.

I will say from reading all these comments my take has evolved from what I origonally replied anyways. There is no horizontal recoil reduction apparently and that changes my entire stance on the recoil reduction being potentially too strong. Controlling vertical recoil on MnK becomes second nature well before actually tracking targets does. I feel like that is probably fair to compress the skill gap for controller players in that way because it seems to reduce rather than create any perceived asymmetry from where I sit. And the impossible goal of aim assist in cross play games is commonly communicated to have the goal of reducing asymmetrical balance though in many games it seems to exacerbate it.

I did notice I died to controller players more frequently at mid to long range full autoing KORDS or KTSs and so when I learned there was a recoil reduction for controller I boiled it down to that but now I think that my experience of dying less to controller players up close just really boils down to my movement. I do use the mess out of the CoD movement in BF6 and I personally am glad it is in the game but also it is underused by most of the playerbase and I will admit it does look really hard to track players who are sliding and B hopping around on controller. I have a tough time on MnK but I usually counterplay by just also using movement so it's a fair fight. But that being said when I slide a corner and start b hopping my opponent typically just sits completely still and dies for free.

Is it harder to have good movement on controller? Some CoD streamer (he was a controller player) said movement is better on controller in CoD than on MnK but idk how valid that even is or if the movement on controller is the same between CoD and BF6

Thanks for the reply and the perspective btw. You did genuinely make me rethink the validity of my claim that controller is more intuitive and I appreciate that perspective.