The real question EA should be asking is why this wasn’t an issue in previous games but suddenly is now.
The changed it on purpose because people complained about races always being a 1 stop strategy so they tried to induce more pit stops. Pad players just notice it more since it's easier to be smooth on a wheel.
I don't see them changing it as that would require them to adjust the AI and from what we've seen with other issues is that they're very hesitant to makes changes to the AI in the middle of a games cycle.