DS Daily: Buttons

One hears so much hubbub regarding the various input capturing systems of the DS (touch-screen, microphone) that one forgets the damn thing has buttons. Eight plus a D-pad, to be precise. The DS is, in fact, Nintendo's first handheld to feature more than two standard face buttons at all, a la the SNES.

Are you happy with the buttons? Are there too many, too few? Are they hard to reach, and are they too clicky? We like the clicks. (Our parents communicated to us exclusively in Morse Code.) Expound upon thy ministrations!