[onli]

Completely agree. I even had that situation myself - I misremembered how the mode switch/bluetooth pairing mode worked and was not able to connect my controller to a switch, thinking it was broken, until I realized what had happened. A small toggle switch really would be much easier.

Still think it's worth it, also to not destroy an original one. On the other hand, better to modify it like this than to throw it away of course...

[JamesSwift]

The new version does actually use a switch instead of the magic button combination. Agreed on the previous version being annoying. Had many kid debugging sessions when they accidentally switched the mode and “broke” it.

[65a]

Wireless ones have a switch, the wired ones all have the "maybe you have to hold a letter depending on the game, kernel version and OS" problem.