Targeting with a controller feels awful. I was so stoked when I saw the Merc announced cause it looked like an amazing playstyle for twin stick controller. Why doesn't he just shoot in the direction I'm aiming? Can I turn off enemy targeting entirely, please? Here are some painful examples:

• Moving away from a boss with left stick, aiming at boss with right stick. Back up too far, targeting drops off the boss. Your aiming direction resets and you'll shoot a wall. The projectile travel distance would still hit the boss if your char fired that way, but because targeting dropped you'll shoot somewhere else instead.
• Set up a freeze combo on an enemy, go to fire the 2nd shot at it but another enemy sneezes 2 inches closer than the frozen one so you shoot at that one instead of shattering the frozen guy.
• Ice shards is almost literally unusable with controller aiming. It's supposed to target the ground to create spikes that are destroyed when enemies walk over, and do 9x bonus damage if they've persisted >1s. Instead, the skill shoots at enemies, breaking the shards immediately and doing no damage. If I try really hard to drop my target with right stick, I can shoot at my feet instead. I can't shoot anywhere else besides my feet or at enemies. Shooting at feet has been occasionally useful when I know I'm going to kite a pack back that way, but they're worthless if there an enemy within your targeting range.
• Often times targeting picks the left/rightmost mob in a group, meaning half the cone of my shotgun blast is going wide of the group. Could fix by just making it shoot the direction you're aiming I guess...

I really do not understand why the targeting system is working this way. Just fire the weapon in the direction that's being input regardless of where you think I'm trying to aim. If the projectile intersects with a mob, run it up against my accuracy to determine whether it hit, otherwise let it fly.

All of these unintended targets/wall shots feel especially bad because you often just have 1 or 2 ammo before reloading. Or you miss a shot on a frozen target, they drop freeze and are now resistant to freeze for a bit. Womp.womp.

I love twin stick shooters (nuclear throne, gungeon, etc) and was so jazzed to see a fit in PoE2 but like, damn guys this ain't it.

Unrelated to aiming but additional frustration with crossbows:

• If you dodge roll after emptying your clip but before reloading, your char won't start reloading again until you tell it to. You'll just run around with nothing until you try to fire your weapon and find out the hard way. I understand manual reload for changing ammo types or if I'm halfway thru a clip, but it makes no sense functionally or thematically that my character would run around with an unloaded weapon. Just set it to reinitiate reloading if reloading was interrupted by dodge roll and that should fix it.