The behaviour may be more akin to a conventional setup in some respects, but the systems would still have in effect been "fighting" the pilot's inputs.
I do not like the word "fighting"
In a conventional system (direct control cable and without or with counterweight) there will have the same effect that is to say an application force to the controls which will increase with deflection requested ... it does not comes to fighting .. but simply to the laws of physics and that is exactly what is reproduced in the 777 system
When you pilot a Tiger Moth .. the system is no fighting your inputs .. it's simply physical laws in action