Waghi,
It may surprise you but even the old fly-by-string B747-jurassic has no real feel at all. The only thing you moved when displacing the controls are hydraulic controlvalves, located dozens of meters behind the flightdeck. So all you feel are the combined frictions of the cable system and all the rollers. On top of this there is an artificial feel system for every control axis based on spring forces and adjusted for things like q and, for the elevator, the Cg. The design challenges in this respect do not differ much between Fly-by-string and Fly-by-wire.