When working in the Simulator Lab at Lockheed's Rye Canyon Research Facility, we were doing a simulation of the P3 Orion.
The chief project test pilot, John Christiansen complained that the simulator didn't fly/feel like the real thing.
I showed him the systems responses to control inputs matched the data the controls group had given us.
The attitude in the Simulator Lab was that pilots don't know what they're talking about, when they disagree with what we have done which matches the data.
John took me flying in the P3C prototype, and I got to fly the thing around.
My previous experience was a flight or two in an Aeronca Champ.

My oh MY!
Did I find out why pilots LOVED that airplane!
Just as John said, it took little more than light pressures on the control wheel to manuver the airplane.
A 4-motored bomber, which flew so effortlessly!
When I first took control, I felt there was -something- active in the control system, besides my inputs, and said to John "The autopilot is on."
He turned it off.
The -something- went away.

And I had -never- flown that airplane or activated the actual control system ever until I got into the copilot seat that day.
When I got back to Rye Canyon, I twiddled the parameters in the simulator to make the simulator feel the way I had felt the real thing, and John was pleased with the results.
Pilots know what their airplanes have to feel like, and scabbing anything as idiotic as the Tomahawk control system into a plane which already has a perfectly usable autopilot shows an extreme lack of connection with reality, and no engineering knowledge at all, and is idiotic... as I already have said.