A part of these impressions bothers me...

Tighten up the controls and the design and we've got a huge winner on our hands. Let's hope this baby streamlines before coming out. The Conduit could very well be amazing.

I am pretty sure that the controls in The Conduit are ridiculously customizable. I think the person playing just needed to spend more time setting up controls the way they wanted. I wouldn't worry too much about that aspect of this impressions article.

Impressions here