I thought I’d hate it too, but it feels so natural now. It helps that you can edit the button layout and their size in options.
Unfortunately no external controllers are officially supported. They were planning on doing a console port so I was expecting this would be a thing at some point, but it feels like they’re moving all their spare devs to “the mmo”
Siralim Ultimate. It’s like Pokémon but your party is essentially a machine built from passive effect interactions and the gameplay is like Diablo.
Absolute hidden gem.