You might be right but not my experience, and with periphals like topic author has, and programmed well, than you can thrust your periphals or devices to work right and on 100% zoom you can notice input in flight behaviour.
If not your rig has not the right settings for what is the point to have devices coupled if you have to convince your mind with your eyes for confirmation of a button or switch flipped over.
It would not be much of a simulator if this is needed to call upon pre saved viewpoint wouldnt it.
A pilot has to thrust a switch to work other wise it would be called a defect and the plane should be towed away to maintenance. If you decide to take to the sky you would lose licence
But you are right if you fly with a single or dual screen than i would say yeah 50 up to 75 % zoom level
View is easy to test by running round the view from where you sit in sim and see all else follow just dont set freelook speed to high on percentage. to see what im talking about