Totally agree with RedDog w/r/t to not cheaping out on the control stick (and throttle and rudders) I maintain two controllers and use a mux to switch between them:
Warthog stock, for DCS (Su33 and WW2 a/c)
Cougar stick force mod, TQS HS mod and TUSBA-R2 for BMS (F16 FBW, and also when I fly the Hornet occasionally)
SLAW F16 rudders (sold my RS rudders to a 1:1 cockpit gent in Europe which funded these rudders and my desktop ICP)
I cant fly WW2 a/c with a static FBW stick, I have to use a positional stick.
And I prefer heavy metal control sticks over plastic ones, even though I did buy Baur’s KG13 because its the only current Luftwaffe one out there AFAIK. There used be a team called ACES that made a metal KG13 for sale, but it was about 1000 bucks and they closed shop eventually.