Poor Wheel Force Feedback?

After the 1.2  update it seems a bit better and after spending some time tweaking, I've been able to get it to a useable/bearable point.

Still very hard to catch a drift. In fact, I was testing some GPU-related stuff w/out my wheel in place and was using the keyboard and I was able to catch a slide with the arrow keys better than the wheel! I know keyboard input is tuned to make it reasonable to drive with digital keys like that, but still crazy.

It's not entirely obvious either, even after spending almost an hour trying to identify exactly how each setting reacts/changes the feel but the first option for wheel centering force is less about caster centering as I thought and more just how the steering wheel follows the wheels, thus you probably actually want that setting quite high as it's what helps the steering wheel follow the wheels actual direction during a drift for example. That's partly why I was struggling.

Even knowing that now, I have to have that setting at around 100 for most cars and 125+ for FWD. Wheel friction at 0 maybe 1 for most cars, maybe max 5 for FWD. Tire friction is like 5-10, maybe 15 max on FWD. Tire grip is usually set to the same as tire friction, maybe slightly higher.

I definitely have to change the settings between most cars and any FWD I've tried recently.

There's still what feels like far too much 'dead zone' on center, where no force happens or it feels sort of mushy as I mentioned previously.

I'll play with the settings some more - I didn't see anything mentioned about it in the patch notes but it did seem a fair bit better after going to 1.2 but that could also just be in my head after making some adjustments if indeed nothing was changed in that regard on 1.2, though I'm sure not everything always makes it into the patch notes.

v1.3 just installed. Will tinker some more. Still not completely satisfied/happy but going from impossible to play and being able to beat myself w/my PC keyboard not even a gamepad to playable and somewhat enjoyable is a good progression. If it was a little less dead/mushy/deadzone feeling on center + little easier to catch a slide, that would be amazing.

Also, if the shifter LEDs worked, that would be nice as well but not holding my breath.