Well, some time ago a very experienced FTE showed me, with data, that I was flying an old-ish (not FBW, 60-ish tonne class) medium jet, more or less exclusively on the trim... Consequence of too many years and too many thousand hours on the type, on which I kept my currency in an airline while doing other things. I had learnt not to bother with the pitch inputs and was simply nudging the control column in the right direction and applying an accurate trim correction. I was NOT doing the same thing in testing...
You also remind me of flying trim and rudder circuits, to touchdown, in another time and place. Useful the day a colleague lost the elevator control (maintenance error) and knew what to do.
Is that what you were after?