Agreed, I use my tablet with my right hand and transport control and jog wheel on the left.
The bottom section of the UF1 makes Nuendo a breeze to use. We configured the Secondary Transport buttons (above the Primary ones) to be our most used edit commands (Selection, Range, Cut, etc) and color coded them. It makes editing quite enjoyable and fast.
If SSL would adopt the Nuendo API, it would be a great controller. Build quality alone is top notch. As it is now, we only use a few of its functions. Our compromise on the fader and screen is to use an SSL channel strip only on the most important tracks.