Buck many of us have been here for 10 years.
We've seen mice guys come, and mice guys go.
We also know that a good joystick blows the socks off any mouse ever built.
For one simple reason. A mouse is designed as a pointing instrument.
A Joystick is designed for flying. It has all the controls needed in 1 location.
Including all 4 axis plus views, and buttons.
If there was any mouse ever built like that, it wouldn't be a mouse anymore.
It would be a joystick.
Many of us have tried a mouse, and we've seen what mouse flyers can do.
Have you seen what you could do with a decent stick?