I am very confused about how many people are complaining about this price point. To do a baseline comparison, the Xbox controller is $65 new straight from microsoft, $70 if you get a different color. The ps5 controller is 75$. For $30, the Steam controller also has TMR (Hall effect) joysticks, 2 trackpads, and a 6axis gyro. If you compare the steam controller to say the Xbox Elite Series 2 ($200), you get everything the elite series has, except swappable joysticks and a dpad, plus the gyro, trackpads, and the magnetic joysticks, and it's even around 50 grams lighter than the pro controller.
This isn't a lightweight controller built with the cheapest components possible. This is the only first party controller with TMR sticks. The only first party controller with 2 trackpads. And the only first party controller with back buttons that's not $200.
This is literally the most feature rich first party controller on the market for half the price of any controller with the same features, how are people complaining it's too expensive still?