I dunno about other people but I play docked a lot, and typing with a controller is near unbearable sometimes. I specifically had this thought because I was playing webfishing from my couch and thought it would be nice if I could pull out my phone and open the steam app, or maybe they could make some kind of steam deck companion app for this and other features maybe, to quickly type a message or just make typing easier. I dunno if this would be difficult to implement or even possible but I think it would be neat.
I use a bluetooth keyboard for this, solves it quite handily.
You can get ones that are pretty small, too.
There’s a dongle that behaves as a Bluetooth keyboard if you want to use a phone as input.