You really don't use your feet until you fly a taildragger.
Did 90% of my flying in trikes up until a couple of years ago, and now I do 99% of it in taildraggers (through choice)...whether it be a Cub, Citabria, Maverick, or Pitts....you certainly discover that your feet are useful for more than just walking to and from the aeroplane!!!!
The old addage of "don't finish flying until the aircraft is tied down" is certainly more true of taildraggers....in a trike you pretty much stop flying once you touch down on the runway....but try that in something like a Pitts and it'll bite you...even on the taxiway!!!
Trikes certainly are MUCH easier to handle on the ground (and getting off and back onto the ground
)...in the air there is little difference....except I haven't found a trike yet that handles anything like the Pitts ANYWHERE!!!
As I said in the title....
Real aeroplanes have tailwheels