JoyToKey or OpenMW MO2 plugin in confusion

Does anyone here deal with modding and could maybe lend a hand?

Ultimately I want to play with a controller because that’s how I grew up playing all Bethesda games on my Xbox’s over the years. My friend installed and set up JoyToKey years ago on my gaming laptop but now I have a pc and he’s moved away. I’ve tried setting it up on my own but I am soooo confused. Then I learned about OpenMW and how there is a Mod Organizer 2 plugin which I did (and it should be working according to multiple how to videos and instructions) but once I load up the game through MO2, it’s still the Morrowind original launch page without the OpenMW settings so I don’t know what I did wrong and still can’t use a controller.

JoyToKey and OpenMW MO2 plugin are the only two forms I’ve found to play morrowind on pc with a controller with mods so if anyone could help me out, I’d be very grateful!!