All FPS controller-based controls are inferior to keyboard+mouse. It just depends on how much hampering you can tolerate. People who played Doom on PC and adapted to Goldeneye were already making an alt control scheme work (although technically you could use 2 controllers to get a similar layout to Halo controls) because the game was good enough to warrant it at the time.

Of course the Halo twin stick controls were/are superior to the weird N64 controller, but none of them have "decent" controls once you're used to m+kb. I even played a bit of Goldeneye 20 years after release and had fun with it--muscle memory kicked in and it was fine.

007 Goldeneye N64 did have (surprisingly modern) dual stick control layouts ... but it required 2 controllers. Of course it was ruined by how shitty the stock N64 controller was, never-mind having to hold one in each hand.

Here's a video of someone playing with the "2.2 Galore" control style

Time Splitters

I don't think this is controversial. Halo is the first game that managed an actually useful but still subtle aim assist that allowed playing a shooter with an analog controller to actually feel good.

Oh yeah??? I'd like to see my sister slap me to death until I cry on Halo!

Halo was not the first fps with good dual analog controls, just one of the first that was as popular as Halo was.

Using the c buttons to aim was super clunky