The 8BitDo Lite SE was designed to be a compact, mobile, and reasonably priced controller to meet the needs of gamers with limited mobility.
The buttons and joystick require very little force to operate. I had difficulty measuring the force to press a button, but it was around 20 grams. The Quadstick must be running firmware build 2364 or later. The S/D switch at the top of the controller must be in the "D" position.
8BitDo Lite SE is an example configuration spreadsheet showing the mapping between the buttons and joysticks and the "usb_..." inputs in the Quadstick.