Elite does not use Xbox terminology
That's not true. My game controller configuration options appropriately show the natural "LS," "RT," and several other xbox/microsoft controller-specific terminology.
OP, I know you found your workaround in using the wired connection, but for what it's worth I was in the same boat. What was weirder is that I was able to play on flat screen just fine with a new XBox Core Controller, but the second I started loading into VR for the first time in ~10 months, the game was only loading a keyboard profile, didn't recognize the controller, and it took a couple hours of troubleshooting. I
think what finally worked was the fact that I reconnected my bluetooth adapter (generic bluetooth adapter, I don't even have the microsoft-specific one) after the game loaded, and it finally recognized that a game controller was connected. Once it's connected though, it seemed to constantly default to the keyboard-only profile, which I didn't notice at first, so it drove me crazy thinking the game still was not picking up the controller, but rather you just have to go into the in-game controls menu to make sure you're choosing one of the "control pad" profiles.
The default control pad profile isn't the greatest, so just use it simply to verify connectivity, then go back to a config profile that works.
