i genuinely think that this is a skill issue because i'm literally playing this with a keyboard and mouse and having zero issues

not sure what you want me to say to that, it's objectively worse than hitting buttons, dunno how that's a "skill issue" or how you not finding much of a problem in playing (with a completely different input mechanism that the DS itself does not have) it changes that

if you haven't lost your DS stylus (because that's an actual problem with the touch controls) and you have the motor skills to sign your name, you shouldn't be having issues. like, at all. and the point i was making with my input mechanism is that it's harder than a stylus by a wide margin, but mentioning the keyboard was probably a little misleading. to reiterate: literally just practice

I shouldn't have to "practice" for an input to be correctly recognized, that is literally just a pointless barrier that makes execution sloppier. My problem isn't that it's impossibly hard or whatever it's literally just worse than hitting a button for no benefit whatsoever