That might be the reason; I abhor FPSs and don't play them worth a crap lol.
Yakuza and 'mue III are the only things I've played on the PS4 and the opposable analogues are PERFECT for that, especially since the D-Pad is perfectly untouched as well and is big and beefy, so my muscle memory is like when I play the Genesis and Saturn.
Unofficial cables indeed **** everything up; when my wife and I were renting, the family upstairs had 2 grandkids, who NEVER used official cables.
Well, one of the lads (lol love writing that word!) had his controller die and his PS4 wasn't recognizing the controller, because it was too dead to get a BT connection and the chord being used, was a 3rd-party one (think it was a blackberry chord).
After lamenting and throwing a fit (that we could hear in the basement where we lived <_<), they asked for my help, I used the Sony chord and it worked IMMEDIATELY.
I guess that simply, sometimes, you need the right tools for the right job