I’ve been on and off of them the past few years.
I’ve found the more I drive the more automation I want in my controls, and the simpler I want my controller. We drove claw with the cortex controllers and when we switched our robot to V5 we found ourselves wanting more buttons.
While it’s true that scuffs give you more buttons without bringing your finger off the joysticks, it’s also more buttons to remember to press.
Replacing single action buttons with automated sequences makes it easier to focus on driving. For example, instead of having two buttons to control a lift where when you hold one button the lift raises, and when you hold the second button the lift lowers, you can have one button with two preset positions and it toggles between the two. You can even have a third position that the lift goes to when the button is held. This was done for the mobile goal lift and tilter for AMOGO and DOGO, and this is just one example of ways to simplify your control schemes. You can use shift keys and preset ladders to further simplify.
But are they OP? Whatever you practice with is OP.
With that in mind, you can hold the controller like this and get access to every button without taking your fingers off the joysticks. If you practiced enough and got used to your pointer fingers on the sticks, this accomplishes more then having scuffs.
Hope this helps!