I'm not sure how deft one could be with those controls. As stated before, they take over five minutes to move full travel; they're very, very slow. Additionally, per some manuals, they work hard; a 20 minute cooldown period for the motors after having fun full travel. Working them back and forth sounds good on paper and in the simulator...but the airplane isn't the simulator. Imaginary motors in the sim have no duty cycle because they don't exist; real motors burn out, seize, burn brushes, fail where you don't want them to, and may not work out nearly as well as in the simulator.
Remember that for all it's training value, the simulator still pretends to show that which does not exist.