I agree. Despite the bad press and reputation it has, after using my friend's I've decided it's not nearly as bad as most make it out to be. I suppose if you have teenie weenie hands it might be uncomfortable, but I never had any problems with it. Not to mention, something it did BETTER than the Controller S was that it had the black and white buttons in an easily accesible place: ABOVE the ABXY buttons instead of below, where its much harder to hit.
As for the Dual Shock, well...
It has the worst d-pad in existence (followed closely by the DS' and GBA's) playing shooters on it is painful. It has no triggers which sucks for racing games (dumbass pressure sensitive face buttons don't count). The face buttons have a poor tactile sensation and the thumb sticks are in a really stupid place, which becomes apparent when playing any game with an FPS-like control scheme. I was playing MS Gundam OYW, and there are times when you have to move both thumbsticks towards the analog button, at which point your thumbs bump into each other.