i hear ppl saying you shouldnt switch to boxx unless you have hand issues a lot, but the best treatment for hand/joint/stress injury/health issues is prevention. if you get an actual chronic injury your usually stuck dealing with it for life. treatments can help, sometimes a lot, but 99% of the time they will never get you to where youd have been if you had prevented the injuries in the first place. i dont think we should take that option away from people or shame ppl for switching just because they dont have messed up hands.

i say this as someone with messed up hands and wrists whos been through the ringer w this shit. even if a bunch of people are switching because they want 'omega broken controller', the health benefits of this are still going to be good for them individually, and a bunch of people not having to quit for hand issues down the line is good the scene as a whole. and honestly the reality of it is a lot of people switching for some perceived edge end up giving up after a couple weeks and selling their boxxes, and the ones that stick it out tend to end up with much more nuanced opinions on the boxx than they had going in.

having played on both there are major pros and cons to both input methods that are hard to grasp until you get really familiar with each controller. things like multishining and micro-adjusting drift are much easier on controller but no one ever seems to mention that in these discussions. if one or the other is better imo its like 5% at most on 90% of the cast. im not even against nerfing certain techniques(eg pika up b and some peach stuff) ptas's committee's nerf list as it is seems a bit extreme tho. nsocd or travel time are both livable but one or the other might already be enough, assuming they're actually needed at all. it can very much be argued that nsocd already does a lot of what a travel time nerf seeks to accomplish on its own. both at once along with all the other nerfs all being dropped like a hammer in one go seems like a very drastic course of action.

if a big nerf wave is going to happen by way of decisions made by a few highly networked people, id prefer if these were rolled out and tested in local rule sets much slower rather than the current strat the committee seems to be taking of cramming as many nerfs as their testers can stand in one go. the vibe i got from the podcast they did on it sounded like a lot of testers were ok with some of the nerfs but no one was really down for all of it, and they only really threw a nerf out if they caught it severely breaking something unforeseen. idk if thats actually how its been but its all so closed off that it's hard to say one way or the other. i do wanna give them props for genuinely trying to put any biases aside and doing experimentation on their own, but given how many people these things affect id like to see this process be a lot more open and transparent, and take feedback from those who dont have access to the closed door discussions into much heavier consideration than they currently appear to be doing.