If anyone here could be bothered to actually research to find out what has changed instead of just trying to complain nothing much has changed, maybe you should read there blog:
http://blog.mybb.com/
Quite a lot actually, I think the topic list has been deleted since the forums got reworked for bug reports. There is a lot more than was ever expected before 2.0 though.
There is a lot in common with these controllers. That was by design of simplicity for the most part. However the next PS4 controller is rumored to have a touch screen and be quite a lot different. Will have to see how that works out :P
It is nice to see technology been stretched to it's limits (see what I did there?) but I think it will be one of them 'look what we can do even though no one will actually buy it' sort of things. Somewhat like 3D TV's seem to be like now.