I’m with ya. Heavy-weighted, firm steering is ABYSMAL. Though a small but vocal cadre of youthy and immature, “sporty” car “enthusiasts” love to love it, since that’s fashionable in their circles. They also delight in saying “My BMW/Audi/Civic-Si/Type-R/Golf steering isn’t heavy. I don’t even notice it. Maybe you just need to work out.” You can be sure they’re pimply 18 yr-olds, desperately insecure, and haven’t enough life experience to have ever needed to commute or felt the blissful easy operation of decades-old Buicks and Caddys. You can be sure they love having their spines pummeled by a suspension system that crashes over the smallest micro-crack in the pavement because “I’m a car enthusiast and I like having feedback through my car.”
Modern cars (post-2010) started down the path of heavy, rubbish steering and have made a right mess of things today. It’s awful. They ruined all light, easy steering under the auspices of “preventing micro-corrections on the freeway and making the car ‘feel’ more stable” (utter bollocks, since cars have been stable with light steering for decades). Also to appease the “I wanna go fast around corners” crowd. But befuddlingly they altered EVERY single car they made to reflect these driving dynamics. So now every car drives like a wanna-be German sports car and all the comfort and ease of light steering is gone. I’ve been on the hunt for a car with light steering for the past 10yrs. Gotta go back pre-2010 for that.