It feels like the other way around to me. There are so many controls they have to double up on the X-Box/PS controllers, with double taps or holding the button to do some options. On PC you can just bind all those around.
This is not dumbed down or simplified. That would be Battlefront or Rogue Squadron.
This is a proper Star Wars flight game. I haven't had this fun since, well XWA.
The game is hard.