The XBox 360 controller's justification for a bad DPad is that it was assumed no-one would ever want to use it. The only games I have which take notice of it as input use it as a set of extra buttons, rather than for directional input.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Radeon Vega 56
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Radeon Vega 56
