Using a mod manager changes my controls...

[Meganium39]

I use a Nintendo Switch controller for PC Stardew (because I played for over 150 hours on Switch before moving to PC). Since the default controls for PC SV are based on the Xbox controls, I use Steam to remap the controls for SV to be the same as on Switch, because as any controller users know, you can't remap the controls for a controller in the game itself. However, when I use the Stardrop mod manager to launch the game rather than Steam, my controls are reset to the defaults, and it makes the game pretty much unplayable to me because I have so much muscle memory from 200+ hours on the Nintendo Switch controls that it's very difficult for me to adapt. Does anyone know of a fix for this? (I am willing and able to install extra mods to help with this)

Edit: for anyone with the same problem, the solution I found was to use an open-source API called DS4Windows to emulate a remapped Xbox controller.