So put even more simply: you can't select, move, rotate and zoom something at the same time with an analog stick.
Thank you for engaging in the discussion. So I will go further into my point. When the multi-touch is a screenless pad, it is
harder to perform these features because you can't see what you are touching. And the smaller the touchpad trickier it is.
Now, when you have a controller with buttons and analogs sticks, looking at the TV, you can mitigate the disparity between these operations compared to a screen-less multitouch surface.
If I want to zoom in on the webpage, I could pinch-to-zoom, but if I am using a small trackpad, the precision will force me to pinch/zoom, then swipe to navigate. I can easy accomplish the same thing using an analog stick to click to zoom, and directional input to navigate. If I want to manipulate a 3D object by rotating it, I can select it by scrolling with a d-pad, as an example, select it and rotate it with the analog stick. Selecting an object from a screen-less multitouch pad is not as easy as from a smartphone.
Just to be clear: I am not discounting multitouch, I'm just trying to say that a lack of a touchpad/screen-less multitouch device can easy be worked around with a dual-stick controller. A small touchpad does not work the same as a smartphone screen in practice.