Old controls could be configured to be very intuitive. There is no such option here - and worse, some interactive functionality now appears to be lost, as well things just take longer in general now in a game that is all about doing a ton of busywork. Some actions can be configured intuitively, but this will make other actions suddenly counterintuitive. The "R toggle" option in settings fixes some things but then turns other interactions - which may have been fine before - into unexpected and unintuitive actions.
So yeah, give us the option for classic controls - I absolutely cannot stand it in its current state. And yes, I tried - it drove me up the wall.