I actually took those paddles off for the same reason! Don't forget that you can remove them :)
Also love the circular all-metal D-pad and thumb-stick extensions...and switches providing adjustable travel for the triggers...and the configuration toggle switch. It's a sweet piece of hardware.
I was hoping this Stream driver would solve that but apparently it's a hardware design (and a bad one IMO)
Another annoyance is there is no quick way to switch more than 2 configs. I would love to be able to set it up like the SC where you can map the config to a specific game so it is alway set correctly.
This makes it sound like it's not a hardware problem.