While there’s an argument to be made that retro games should be experienced with whatever input device they were designed around, there’s no debating that modern game controllers are a lot more ergonomic and enjoyable to use than some of those early 8-bit entries.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/13/picontrol-brings-modern-controllers-to-atari-2600/