it was the WRIGHTS who figured out how to control a plane and it is still the accepted way of controlling planes today.
Sorry to disabuse you of that thought, MPW Boulton in patenting the aileron in 1868 (Wilbur was 1 yo, and Orville wasn't even a gleam in daddys eye) clearly understood what was requred. Some bloke called Manly said of this in 1916;
the system of lateral balancing or control now so universally used; [is] that of supplementary planes, now called ailerons. The description he gave of these in his British patent was thorough and clear. It is the first record we have of appreciation of the necessity for active lateral control as distinguished from the passive lateral equilibrium secured by having wings set at a
dihedral angle. With this invention of Boulton's we have the birth of the present-day three torque method of airborne control. The only thing then lacking [in 1868] to enable man to learn to operate flying machines was the one great organ – a suitable engine
Of course this may not accord with your world view, but be honest; wing warping really was a dead end.
The Wright boys put together the first practical, controllable, powered aircraft, but they did so on the back of work done by many others, and essentially on having a sufficiently lightweight engine.