I find it very easy to plant crops using the controller in the left hand to move around and the mouse in the right hand to place the plants. Picking them up, though, can still be a dance, trying to aim at the right spot to pick them.

Be careful with your Steam controller settings. I tried get the controller working on No Man's Sky, which is having controller issues in the latest update, and hit some setting that seemed to be constantly swapping block and hit.

It's kind of annoying (and dangerous) if you're trying to parry an abomination and your character just takes a swing at it instead. Then you run away and try to hit it with the bow, and the bow keeps switching into block mode.