The other day, I was in Future Shop, and I found an old, original Xbox controller hooked up to one of their displays, after five minutes with it, I concluded that this was instantly better than the controller-S, and that if I ever found one, I'd snap it up in an instant. Compare the one I now have:

With the old-school one:

Now, I'll grant you that the black and white buttons are a little hard to reach, but compared to their current position it's far better. The way my hands are, B&W are, for all intents and purposes, on the grip. The Start and Back buttons are in an even worse position on the Controller-S; instead of their traditional center-stage position, they're tucked under the left thumbstick? I know the original controller wasn't perfect--if you don't have big hands like mine, you're kinda hosed--but I think you should at least be allowed the option of choosing one over the other, rather than being forced to only buy the S. The current model is on the ragged edge of tolerable (the Dual Shock line for the PlayStations is almost unusable for me), and the option of comfort in controllers should be there. You can imagine how I feel about the Xbox 2 controller in this week's Rumour Control being essentially a Dual Shock II with different button names.

Plus, if they still sold the originals, maybe they'd sell them in translucent green to match my Xbox. That'd be nice.