With FFB, you could trim the aircraft by force alone until reaching neutral position, whatever the X+Y deflection of the joystick. FFB is in my opinion a game changer for this, and a reason I’ve purchased a SW FFB2 20 years ago which is still working in pristine conditions.
I wish they didn’t remove support for this Microsoft Joystick in FS2020, especially since code to support it was already there in the FSX code base (and the FS2020 config files are still carrying over the FFB parameters…).
I’ve already documented in this forum the possible reasons FS2020 is no longer supporting FFB and most likely why it never will. I hope they prove me wrong:
Live Dev Q&A: Guided Question - #15 by CptLucky8
Force feedback support - #107 by Steinways