From my experience, playing with a controller is a perfectly valid way to play the game. It controls well and I never felt restricted or hampered by using a controller over mouse and keyboard.

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If you want to keep the PC in the mix, it sounds like you can do cross-platform with Minecraft Bedrock (but not Java), but would need Gold on the Xbox to allow the online play.