I just cannot understand this. Especially as you say you never used them, so essentially you don’t know. Some people try and see what they like better, and ok some prefer a mouse, but to have never even tried and then say you’d rather endure physical torture is such a weird thing to say.
So in your mind, fiddling with a mouse is more realistic than the “meat tongs”? Or do you have absolutely every single button and knob mapped to your hardware? If so congrats you must have one hell of a sim cockpit I guess. But for most of us that’s not realistic so for less used items we need some interaction device.