I've never had many problems with the resident evil controls, in fact I kinda miss how the original 3 were played.
Agree. Sure they were a bit stiff, and they certainly were different from most other games, but they were intuitive in their own way...
Plus I think Resident Evil would have lost a huge amount of atmosphere if it had your characters controlling like, say, Kratos.
Weird to think that controls contribute to story-telling, but I think they did with those games.