I just got this game this week and have been playing nemo kart trying to figure out how to drift boost for the daily quest today and quickly realized the same thing - how impossible and awkward it is to try and press Y & A at the same time like his photo... especially while trying to use items. I hate using the keyboard, but will have to in order to do the daily quest/play nemo kart properly.
Found this post while googling how to reassign the controls and realized it's not possible. Please change this for people who play with controllers so we can all enjoy nemo kart more 🙂 I realize it does say Beta for the mode, so maybe this change is coming.
Thank you for the wonderful game, enjoying it so far!
Edit: Nevermind, the keyboard controls aren't good either imo, actually had a harder time with them... hopefully this will change so we can reassign buttons