I'll reiterate what I said in the news thread. Their best decision in this was packaging-in the second controller.
Assuming this is obtainable at all, I hope the controllers feel as good as the NES classic's controller.
This IS a pretty darn good list of games. That said, if people are really that irked about the games included, I have no doubt there'll be means to "add" games to the library if you're willing to do the research.
My oldest son's just starting to get old enough to where he's expressing interest in playing games. I'm fairly tentative about introducing them to him at age 5, but I see this as a great way for me to slowly let him acquaint himself, for us to share fun in playing games, and at some point, allow him to play a gated library of games without having to worry he's going to either accidentally purchase something without permission or damage a $50-70 controller.
That's again, assuming I'm able to actually find one.