I am probably doing something wrong, but i couldn’t get that script to do anything unfortunately.
In power shell it just throws up a bunch of errors that i don’t understand haha.
But yeah, apart from the clock not working, spad.next seems to have done the trick… as long as i don’t plug in my razer keypad… which is a bit weird, since it’s also not directly related simply to the number of devices connected… if i plug my xbox controller in, everything still works… but if i plug the razer keypad in, rudders completely vanish out of existence.
At any rate, using spad.next also means i don’t have to update the drivers for the controllers using anything from logitech or saitek…i just let windows do its thing, and the other panels like the radio etc are managed by spad.next… and with the razer unplugged, everything seems good again.
As a result of going this route, windows is also no longer conplaining about the saitek drivers not allowing core isolation… so I’ve managed to get that turned on finally, and no more annoying notification from windows security 
Fingers crossed, everything will work from now on haha