If you tap it has a short input (though much smaller than irl or any other sim)
My issue is if you hold it then it has a short input, then a pause, then a continuous input.
Its the pause I have an issue with. That doesn’t happen in real life. It doesn’t happen in any other simulator (certainly not in the past 20 years anyway).
I am surprised that more people aren’t complaining about it. For me it’s unplayable like this. But, as you say, 5m players……(though I feel that 4,999,999 of them are just saying “oooh but the clouds are soooo pretty”).
I’ll look for 3rd-party software which can maybe do something (some kind of auto repeat would probably do the job). This is the one thing stopping me using the game, and I think you’re right the devs aren’t going to fix it.
Suggestions for key-mapping software with some kind of auto-repeat welcome…(my old saitek x52 joystick had that function, my virpil kit does not)