Yeah, I’ve been using controller on mobile. It’s weird, as it’s both better and worse than Genshin.

On one hand, I think the implementation is better and more complete than Genshin. IE you can actually use the controller on the opening menus. I also think the overall controller interface is better.

However, like you mentioned making the game have to completely restart to enable it is weird, since Genshin never had to do that. In the end that wouldn’t be so bad if it simply remembered that you had controller selected, or noticed you had a controller paired and active, and would just enable that by default at the start. Hopefully that’s a QOL improvement they can do in the future. Make sure to put that in surveys!

I did notice that Genshin on PC began remembering I had controller enabled upon launch recently, so hopefully they’ll roll that improvement out everywhere soon.