I have come to the same conclusion for a tracker that I am working on that is targeting the steam deck.

I designed an instruction set that is reasonably convenient to input via the gamepad controllers. Instead of typing, one selects instructions and operands from lists of options. It's surprisingly fluid to input and this makes it impossible to input invalid programs.

What’s your project? I would love to try it out :)

it’s called shield tracker and is available here: https://bleep.toys/stracker

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Added to my weekend todo list :D