>>279987704
they heard the complaints about people wanting to rebind the system button, but it's impossible. Then they remembered the complaints about accidentally hitting the button, and a brilliant idea was born to remove it altogether.
>>279987585
>How will this work for the thumbstick?
What do you mean? Either it will work like the Index one (please not) or they'll just have a solid component which detects even the slightest movements.
Touch sensor is so fucking redundant on a thumbstick, the only reason Valve put it on is probably because they realized everyone has to put massive deadzones on them sooner rather than later.