Cool that it works I guess, but I have to say, this makes no sense practically speaking. Joy-Cons are not a great upgrade considering all things, yea some folks like them and all, but as someone who takes many things apart and or repairs such things, uses them, etc. Joy-Cons being one of the things I've dealt with, are quite frankly flawed and kind of rubbish controllers, their quality isn't great (though not the worst) compared to plenty of other solutions that existed in the past and even against some that exist currently, efficiency wise they tend to be hit or miss depending on the game(s) used with. This doesn't sit well in my mind right out the gate considering the Steam Deck is an expensive device, seeing such an expensive device getting this kind of treatment kind of hurts a bit, the proportions aren't even right, it's kind of ugly like this, I'm mostly asking why honestly. People will do whatever with their money but....this isn't even a novelty, it's just unnatural and weird. Yes, the concept of attaching controller sticks on the sides of a tablet isn't anything new, obviously we are talking about controllers made for a tablet system to begin with, it just seems awkward here. It's kind of like all those weird modifications people make to game consoles that basically traps a system in a different shell form factor, like a Nintendo DS that looks like an original Game Boy for example...just with an extra screen that sticks out obviously and looks ugly (I find that kind of modification horrible personally).
Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should. Many folks like to chime around with the concept that fun, existence, and or practicality doesn't need a reason to make something exist, or that there doesn't need to be any sense of doing anything, I beg to differ a bit considering we kind of waste potential doing stuff like this when something better could have taken its place. Granted I can't say this is the worst thing I've seen in existence in the hardware side of things, I just wish people were a bit more creative with their skill set(s). A custom controller probably would have been nicer here honestly, might even open the doors for a cooler modification of sorts in the future that other Steam Deck users could adopt as an actually nice option.