What is Wrong with 6 Face Buttons?

I was doing some heavy cleaning in my Game Room today because the place has been in shambles over the past week because I have been pretty ill. I was dusting off the game controllers that were out in the open and I had a sudden moment of pure admiration as I was working on the face of the X-Box controller. The one that I have hooked up to the console right now is the revised, smaller controller