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I would assume TNG phasers use something like aim assist.
>No one could possibly achieve proficiency with this sort of gun without huge amounts of practice, thus compensating for its horrible ergonomics through sheer determination.
Maybe that's a feature and not a bug. Make a terribly designed gun that's hard to aim and then drill rigorously to learn to use them so that if non Star Fleet persons got a hold of them they couldn't hit anything for shit. TNG
era universe Federation is just retarded enough to do something like that.