Couldn't agree more Bizjet; by and large stick forces are far more important than stick displacements.
However, you still need reasonable stick displacements with most control system designs otherwise you start to encounter fine-control problems as soon as normal wear and tear cause a bit of freeplay in the system.
However, most pilots will be aware if there is a lot of back-stick, so it does no harm to identify that as one of the stall warning clues.
G