Nope. It is secure. It all feels right but for some reason its harder to use. With my TP and LS32 I can execute moves without ever touching the gate. But with the TM I have to move the stick all the way down to the gate, into the corner of the square, and slide it against the gate to the 6 position in order to do a quarter circle all the time. I can do it without touching the gate, but it only works once out of maybe ten tries.
Maybe it does have a different feel to it and requires a different way of play. We were under the impression that they were exactly the same stick only connected differently.