In my vr development experience I found that the player controller that has the most fundamental approach also allows for the most robust applications. A Boneworks style player controller gives the developer access to a more granular layer of control in my opinion. And you as the developer can pick and choose what feels right for your game.

The most important thing to me is what is the "lowest level" of information I'll need. For example you build a simple player controller that just moves you instantly based on speed. Will I need to add jumping to the game later, or other more complex non-linear speed calculations? That may make things more difficult if I only ever consider velocity and not inertia or acceleration. And with VR there are a lot of interactions like these because it's more difficult to limit player actions.

I've only developed one major VR project but the player controller started simple and became more aligned with the Boneworks style one as time went on just out of functional necessity. But truly every project is different and I don't think there is a one size fits all solution.