Manual should be more accessible

I get that in attempt to "emulate" the act of balancing your board you need to balance your analog between both extremes with some deadzone in between as to not so easily trigger it. However only limiting it between 50% and like 95% is too narrow for many controllers.
My Logitech F310 has a strong  self-centring spring, so most of the time when I pull it hard to manual, I end up just braking the board. And when I try to tune it down, most of the time I can't manual because I'm only at 30/40% of analog. The manual deadzone should be tweaked by you devs or given option to be adjusted from the options. Extend it to 10/20% should be a good balanced deadzone.