It is a huge improvement. But it still suffers from being jack of all trades, master of none. Because the GC controller only had to cater to new games, it could make 3d games much easier to play, by having a control stick at top left instead of bottom left. And the ABXY button placement is still SNES-like, making it not as good for playing games like Brawl.
But yes, all the changes were great ones







