its like a car steering wheel I guess - two hands gives you more precise control and greater force, and the design uses less cockpit space.
That's not exactly accurate. When your flying in straight lines you want to hold the yoke with your finger tips in order to be smooth, it is next to impossible to fly smooth when squeezing the controls. When your maneuvering your other hand is on the throttle so you still have only one hand to control the aircraft. So a yoke is almost always useless.
The only time when you would really need a yoke is when flying some heavy bomber with a hydraulics failure.
When you have a complex aircraft with a small cockpit (not a bomber or an airliner) all your gauges and buttons are cramped together, quite often a yoke gets in the way and unfortunately you can't just turn it 90° to get to something else.
Even in an airplane as basic as a C-172 the yoke gets in the way. When a circuit breaker pops or you want to reset it you typically want to see the circuit breaker in order to identify which system is belongs to before doing anything to it, but you just can't see them because of the yoke. I never had such problem with any aircraft that has a stick.
