So, after 1K miles and a month of life with the yoke, I am going to change my position (no pun intended) on it. Outside of the initial trepidation before picking up the car, my stance as been that functionally it's a wash with a round wheel while but it offers definite design/aesthetic benefits, so its worth dealing with the learning curve.
I am going to go out on a limb and say the combination of yoke+stalkless controls offers better ergonomics than a wheel+stalks. Once you build some muscle memory, the yoke is almost like a Xbox or PlayStation game controller--you never have to take your hands off it and everything you need is under your thumbs almost all of the time. Because the yoke forces a 3-9 o'clock hand position, your hands stay in fixed relationship to the control buttons and you can distinguish the four control buttons by location and feel without having to look at the yoke or take you hands off the wheel. I did not fully appreciate this until I drove my wife's X for a bit, and loosing my grip to flip the turn signal seemed so much less efficient than leaving my hand in place and using my thumb. Same thing with wipers, flipping high beams, etc.
YMMV, but this is where my head is at.
I am going to go out on a limb and say the combination of yoke+stalkless controls offers better ergonomics than a wheel+stalks. Once you build some muscle memory, the yoke is almost like a Xbox or PlayStation game controller--you never have to take your hands off it and everything you need is under your thumbs almost all of the time. Because the yoke forces a 3-9 o'clock hand position, your hands stay in fixed relationship to the control buttons and you can distinguish the four control buttons by location and feel without having to look at the yoke or take you hands off the wheel. I did not fully appreciate this until I drove my wife's X for a bit, and loosing my grip to flip the turn signal seemed so much less efficient than leaving my hand in place and using my thumb. Same thing with wipers, flipping high beams, etc.
YMMV, but this is where my head is at.