Oh lord, I dunno what happened is all I can say, it had to have been some option I missed during installation of Arch, but I’m not knowledgeable to understand how it works. I found a particular warning during installation, and googled it which lead down a small rabbit hole that got me to the answer of somehow I don’t have the actual linux package installed, and ran
sudo pacman -Syu linux
and then uninstalled and reinstalled the xone-dkms-git package, and now my controller is recognized immediately after being plugged in. This is now solved, but gosh… can somebody explain to me how I could have been running my computer without the linux package installed? I’m legitimately curious how that works being fairly new to linux.