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I upgraded from my aging DS4 to an Ultimate 2C, and it was night and day. The buttons are sharp (some on the DS4 started to become sticky) and the hall-effect sticks are incredible: I felt that my inputs were much more precise out of the box, and in Steam you can reduce (and even eliminate) dead zones.
I would only upgrade to a Steam Controller for the trackpads, but I don't think I play enough games that would benefit from them to justify the purchase (maybe if I played more third-person platformers/shooters like Lara Croft and Uncharted)
Edit: forgot to mention the additional buttons. I don't use them on the 2C because of their awkward placement, whereas Valve placed them next to the grips on both the Steam Deck and Controller. I find the latter placement much easier and natural, it was quite useful when I played Half-Life 2 and Portal 2.
The fun thing about the trackpads is that you can make them work like a menu for whatever buttons/hotkeys you want, so they are nice even if you don't play 3rd person games, and can also work like a mouse wheel; there is no limit on what you define there, so keep in mind that those aren't mere trackpads at all, just like on your steam deck!
Oh, then I have barely scratched the surface of what is capable with them.
You can also do fun stuff like make a button autofire when doublepressing and holding it, or configure a incomplete push of the trigger to aim down gunsights and fire when completing the push, while directly doing a full push skips the aiming and hip-fires. Or activate the gyro while holding the left trigger and touching the right analog stick (which has a touch sensor!) for looking down the sights and gyro-aiming. Or completely change all mappings after pressing a button (for example when the button changes into a menu which needs a different config).
This article gives a good quick overview over whats possible without overdoing it.