Well also gimbals drop the weapon size category by one. SO a since 3 laser turns into a size 2 gimballed laser. Also if you have trackir you can gimbal track with that. If you look at the play/kill stats HOTAS users are at the top. So it is balanced a bit.

Setting up the PTU is a pita though. Honestly I'd wait for the tutorial to hit release client instead of trying to mess with the PTU.

You have to go into your account and activate the PTU at which point they will email you instructions on how to access it. It gives you a new PW that you cant change and that changes for every PTU release.