Sounds about right. From what I know. Alot of lore are in the descriptions of items and about 90% of the times im looking at what the items does then were it's from. Why I stick to lore videos then trying to piece together a puzzle.
I personally had no problem with the controller. That being said I imagine the nostalgia the controller brings is reminding people of when they got there xbox or maybe early halo 1 days.