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Logo uses joystick by liftarn
I found myself in a strained decision playing Space Marine 2, because it had third person movement, melee combat, parrying, BUT also has tight aiming and enemies that sprint miles from your crosshair when you glance at them.
I finally relented to mouse and keyboard for that one.
Every game that plays better on a controller is just some form of a racing game. RPGs are low speed racing games with lots of wacky options like speed racer. Sports games are team racing with some hitting and throwing mixed in. Side scrollers are racing games with jumps and power ups.
Mouse and Keyboard players always believe they can fly just as well as Gamepad/Controller players (they can't) and simultaneously assume that because they suck with a Gamepad that nobody else can play a shooter competitively with a Gamepad against Mouse and Keyboard players.... which with Gyro aim is wrong.
I have thousands of hours of playing competitive shooters with my steam deck using onboard joysticks along with gyro, the limiting factor is I am playing on a potato with a small screen and limited framerate, it is rarely if ever an issue of aim and in some ways my ability to aim easily outclasses Mouse and Keyboard, for one I don't have to ever pick up the mouse and move it, major consistent rotations with joysticks is natural and easy.
To make the point a fine one because people are often annoying about this, I have played many hours of Xonotic using gyro aim and while I am by no means a top tier Xonotic player with the max framerate the Steam Deck goes taken into account I can play very fast paced and competitively. Any game you say "but what about!?" or shooter genre you try to say that Joysticks + Gyro isn't good enough for is easier to play well than Xonotic.
an example
Nah, controllers are fine for aiming, just not in competitive PvP with crossplay. Even without any kind of auto-aiming or gyro you learn to use both sticks for it (with some game setting changes, depending on the game).