As a guy who uses a mouse, the ability to use macros/hot-keys might help level the playing field against joystickers. Or maybe not. I am not complaining. I am very happy to fly using a mouse (actually my weird preference).
Having the ability to hit one key (or key combo) and have it execute the keystrokes that one would need to type into the dot command buffer would be a nice feature. Maybe this feature already exists and I am unaware???
My 2-cents.
WT