Think about it a bit more. I know I have.
Over here, it costs $550 for a PS4 Pro. 1080ti is around $1100. You could buy a whole new console instead of new GPU. You can put SSD in them already. Tinkering? That's all done in bios, these days. Why don't I have a console? Because, like you, I like control.
Streaming to your neighbours, ripping DVDs, downloading game repacks. You're not supposed to do these things. But what's stopping you doing that on consoles, anyway? Two things: OS and not having a keyboard and mouse.
Now if you were a good tinker you could install Linux on your playstation anyway. Heck, dude, if you were really good you could...
About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles
That's right. Build a super computer. I'm sure this would rip DVDs faster than your PC. It's all just hardware, anyway, right?
You're probably relying on Windows more than PC hardware to allow you to do all these things, but you can be sure Microsoft doesn't like it. If you're on win10 they probably know you're doing it. If they had things their way Windows would be exactly like xbox dashboard. Soon you'll need to pay extra for a developer version of Windows if you want any access to your hardware at all. (Sure, you don't pay for Windows, anyway, that's why Win10 puts ads in your start button. That's why you probably have over 9000 tracking adware cookies.)
Do you remember when Windows95 came out with directX and all the developers complained about losing direct access to hardware? You didn't mention needing your PC for development, programming or anything, but it's clear to see the trend towards less user control. 99% of devs these days can't do low level coding like assembly, anyway, so we always get crappy optimisation and we're pretty much forced to buy new GPUs before our old ones get used to their full potential.
Now, it's important to note that Microsoft doesn't want to lock it all up in one go and drive you away to Linux where you'd have to learn to use a computer. They want to make it easier and easier to PC until the typical user has no idea how a computer works at all. Tablets and phones is what they want you to have. SSD? One day they'll try to take away all your storage and force you onto the cloud. Heck, you can already forgo a personal GPU and let Nvidias servers do the computation for you and stream games directly to your monitor with Geforce Now, or something.
Being able to use a controller is far from a bad thing. If they didn't allow it in order to force gaming onto their console - that would be bad. In fact, my xbox one controller wasn't supported in Win7. "Windows 10 required", it said, but I got it working, anyway, with unofficial drivers someone more skilful than myself made. You're lucky to have the
option because that's what's good about PC. The way you act is like if Windows banned controller's you'd probably celebrate. That's a dumb PC user digging his own grave.
Consoles are still where most the game industry is mainly focused and therefore gamepads are the primary control device. We're
lucky to be getting these console ports, like Yakuza 0, Dark Souls and MHW. PC used to barely get any ports of the good console games. Dark Souls petition was the best thing PC users have done for themselves in recent years. But you gotta remember that PC
still isn't the focus. If you act like entitled little shits and complain and downvote everything then how long before they just don't bother with PC at all and leave you your free2play MMO games-as-a-service shit?
That's right. PC makes most its money off free2play MMO crap and DLC these days. Everything is released unfinished and buggy as fuck in Early Access without all its content and users eat it up. PUBG ran like shit and it was number 1 until Epic games beat it with a game mode that took them a trivial 2 months to make. It's only on consoles where games are actually released finished. That's realistically where PC is at. It's shit.
If you took a game like Monster Hunter: World with its bad user review score and instead slapped an Early Access sticker on it with no intention of removing it, you'd get a better score and users would jump to defend it saying "It's in EARLY ACCESS you retards, do you even know what that means?" and upvote it.
So, make use of your options as a PC user. You can literally buy a gamepad off ebay for $10 and never have to deal with bad keyboard and mouse controls ever again. Console users can't use a keyboard and mouse for games so it's always going to be like this. Don't scare away the console ports.
Play the games as they were supposed to be played because you can!