It is not so much a stick vs. yoke problem. The initial design of the T7 cockpit went with a side stick, only to be rebuffed by dinosaur pilots from United.
We started on Piper L3 or L4s and the stick was between our legs, on the bus it is either left or right of our knees. No big difference in physical movement to achieve any result. You get used to either the old stick, new stick or yoke in a few minutes.
The real difference, and the one that was criticised right from the beginning, is that Airbus decided to put the opposite side stick to a dead mode when the fellow pilot flew, and to a blocked mode once the AP is engaged. Boeing initially wanted its drive back system it has on todays yoke on its side stick as well. That would have been the optimal solution!
Focus on the wrong stick design and not the stick itself. Such design could be changed with very little effort, contrary to what Airbus always pretends (they invoke weight ..... ) As the absolute exact replication of any buddy's or the AP's movement is not crucial, a simple rumble stick from the neighbourhood's game shop would do replicating at least the
direction and continuation of any movement, any mediocre gamer can confirm that and it costs about 30 bucks!
The very essence of the problem of that comes down to what lowlevelpilot stated:
The techncology that is being put on flight decks is more advanced than the understanding of how humans have to interface with it, especially in high stress scenarios
That is what we have to focus on, apart from better initial and basic skill. The moving stick thereby is a fundamental requirement.