you are taking an small number of top pvp players in the game, and even with this small number most of them use k&m, I repeat, take about the top 200, or even 100 top, and about 90% use m&k.
Of course there is people using hotas which can be better than most other players no matter what they use, but that´s the normal situation.
Use this as an example. Take two total noobs in elite, and make one of them use m&k and the only one use HOTAS, I am quite sure in about, I don´t know, 50 hours of training, the m&k user probable will be better in 1vs1, because requires much less training "to git good" as you would say
Of course there is people using hotas which can be better than most other players no matter what they use, but that´s the normal situation.
Use this as an example. Take two total noobs in elite, and make one of them use m&k and the only one use HOTAS, I am quite sure in about, I don´t know, 50 hours of training, the m&k user probable will be better in 1vs1, because requires much less training "to git good" as you would say