This puzzles me a bit. Decades ago when I was a student at Navy Test Pilot School, <snip> I preferred minimal stick motion with aircraft response determined by stick forces. Nello informed me that the vast majority of pilots also preferred that configuration.
I wonder if you would still feel that way today.
One of the realities that plague video game designers is the fact that as we age one of the first skills that is lost is what is known as "fine motor control," especially in the hands. FMC does not refer to reaction time; it has to do with the ability to make small, discrete movements as opposed to large sweeping ones. People who suffer from poor FMC often appear to be "overreacting" physically to the stimulus but it's not a reaction problem.
I have long wondered if poor FMC isn't the true explanation behind this crash:
American Airlines Flight 587 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'd bet my bottom dollar that if your old teacher put a group of 45 year olds who had never piloted before in that test,he'd get very different results.