There were plenty of people who were terrible at EQ, but odds are they were just terrible at video games. If you're a gamer, EQ was never very hard and most skills came in very niche parts of the game. Things like a good healer and good puller were quite apparent when compared to ones that were not.
The thing is, the project is a complete and utter joke, so Sparkle being a Christard has very little impact. With or without her, the project has been a complete disaster from the moment that Kickstarter went up.
You said you were in all college-level AP classes in 12th grade, so yes...that is not even remotely like most people. There's probably a higher than average amount of nerds in this community, but the vast majority of students are nothing like that.
It usually has nothing to do with me touching it. It's when I set the controller down or rest it on my lap. The one with no springs triggers every time, the 'stock' one doesn't. The actual trigger "feel" is pretty much the same.