While they're not likely to be the best control experience you can possibly get for a given application (as any serious FPS or fighting game player can tell you

While they're not likely to be the best control experience you can possibly get for a given application (as any serious FPS or fighting game player can tell you), the mainstream official console controllers really are engineering and design feats in their own right. This is one of those things where getting it 90% right is easy but the last 10% will make people hate using it.