No it did not help. I also just continued a mission in my IL2 career. Peripherals were working as expected.
If any of you enjoy flying in VR, and have not yet tried IL2 Great Battles series of games, then I can highly reccomend it.
My MSFS problem is crashing before you get to the welcome screen where it checks for updates. Also remember this is a new install, after having removed the local files in an attempt to resolve the problem.