Yeh I raced in chase cam with controller, but when I got a wheel I wanted immersion. Each to their own.
I've read you mention bag of bolts a few times, when I first switched from G25 to G29 the G29 was noisy (like a bag of bolts) and I knew It couldn't be right, I took it back and got a replacement one, the new one was nice and quiet and remained reasonably quiet unless I'm on the rally tracks in GTSport - then it is a bit noisy, but goes back to quite quiet on tarmac.
I'm wondering if you got a bad G29.