Please feel free to address me in the first person anytime you like, Harley.
Without taking up a lot of space on the right side of the cockpit, the side stick would be mounted down by the pilot's right thigh. The early problem with the Eurofighter stick was that it placed the pilot's right arm too low. Typhoon doesn't have the seating arrangement that Leon mentioned so the side stick option wasn't a player in this case. Maybe, had it been in the design from the beginning.