There was less and less use of the touch controls in most games that were worth playing as the DS as the console was on the market, most games that I have and play still, have no touch screen controls or minimal optional ones.
An example being dragonball origins, that had forced motion controls so they put actual physical button controls into the sequel as the sales actually negatively affected the first in terms of worldwide sales numbers and then they made the mistake of releasing less of the second game with vastly improved controls. Second game is great, runs buttery smooth on the most updated twilightmenu on a 3ds, runs like garbage on actual DS hardware though, it also ran like crap on twilightmenu till a later release of it, was playing it, kept dropping to 10 frames, updated twilight menu one day and it ran like a dream.
Imagine forking out money for a game that ran like as on a DS. Nintendo just wants to stop me from enjoying the games for their machines in the best way. Jokes on you Nintendo!
Nintendo were smart enough to not make any major touch screen related controls to the pokemon games for example, like they knew that touch controls were a novelty for tourists and got them alot of bank, but mainly earned the ire of most people that actually played their games through the years
Most good DS games don't use touch controls, theres actually less than 20 great games that exclusively used touch controls, I hate that the two wind waker esque games forced touch controls and dragonball origins.
Most JRPGS don't use the touch controls or they're optional shortcuts for menus.
Mainline pokemon games.
Chrono trigger
Dragonball attack of the saiyans
Dragonball origins 2
Dragon quest series
Final fantasy series.
Super robot wars games.
blue dragon games.
Also I highly suggest the front mission DS speed hack that was put up on the repo recently, the "lag fix by thunderdisk", it's listed as a seperate game from the normal DS release, This is the best way to play the game outside of the current version of the front mission 1 remake if you prefer more modern aesthetics. I love me some front mission, they also fixed the dialogue in the second games remake, is now amazing. Awaiting the third.
There's just too many good games on the DS to list that don't use motion controls.
