Anyone else think the biotics look Bada$$?

Anatomically, it should be much less stressful. They even design professional controllers partially with this in mind. You may have a slightly unorthodox grip, I guess. (Body mechanics are a thing I'm sort of into, of necessity.) We always had 2 of 3 powers on the bumpers in ME, anyway.

I'm assuming the above (Hrungr's part about triggers) was based upon some developer input? If so, it seems possible to me that the Xbox One may feature triggers for shooting and bumpers for powers, while the PS4 seems reversed. In the video, the functions normally assigned to the R2 trigger (from an Xbox user's perspective) -- shooting, conversation interrupt, etc-- were all mapped to the R1 bumper. Conversely, the powers I'd usually have mapped to L1 and R1 bumpers are instead mapped to the triggers.

This is an issue I've noticed in multiple PS/XBox crossovers, but I have no idea why it would rear its head now. The PS4 controller is excellent, with excellent triggers. Allow me to use them for shooting, please.

Perhaps but tapping quickly with a thumb over a limited area is much  easier on the hand than finer pressing a bumper for me especially when you get in the heat of the battle and you are not lightly tapping but hitting buttons hard.  I would be legit surprised if most people found it the opposite.

Also I would find it far tougher to drive with the stick with my left thumb and have to left fore finger hit the left bumper as opposed to left thumb to drive and right thumb to activate powers.

True. Quick pulls fatigue the trigger finger quickly. I don't think we will get cooldowns low enough to spam our powers that fast, though.

The human body is amazing, in any case, and joints are pretty crazy in the amount of abuse they take without complaint. I, unfortunately, am not glued together so well, so I have to be conscious of every movement and motion.