War thunder is the cause of this mess...
PS4 controllers and joysticks all require licensing and they require SHARE and Options buttons added to the controller be them a Steering wheel or Flight stick..
No PS4 buttons no License and no support in firmware on PS4... ( firmwae support is require to navigate dynamic menu and launch the game)
War thunder has EXTRA unlicensed USB device driver in the game support, including Keyboard and mouse support to play the hole game,this is were the issue lies,
War thunder is not Elite dangerous, Elite dangerous only supports licensed controllers not unlicensed USB products...
The Russian developers of war thunder Left the hole USB PC Driver compliance thing meh jig in the game instead of stripping it as other developers do from going from the PC SDK to console final release... The configure controlls screen is a complete PC mess... The menu GUI for the PS4 screen was a PC mess, it only made sense when you connected a USB mouse... Its got better but its still a Mouse GUI system...
War thunder Like project cars 1 supports many unlicensed for PS4 USB controllers because the developer did not strip the USB drivers for those devices... Even the PS3 Hotas is supported on war thunder but is not a licensed controller for PS4...