Nothing wrong with a bit of snobbishness IMO when it only extends to voluntary choices people make ( although buying a proper wheel is still out of reach for a lot of people ).
I know that when I do buy a wheel and experience GT "how it's meant to be played" like you say I'll probably get hooked as well ( therefore it's probably a good thing I don't try it
).
Although I do believe GT isn't exclusively meant to be played with a wheel ( even Kaz himself recently admitted only using a controller when playing at home ) and even with a controller I know it's much more than just another video game.
Forgive me the poor analogy, but I guess it's somewhat ( only somewhat ) similar when I order Chinese food and it includes chopsticks.
I'm one of those people who never got get the hang of those but I haven't really invested time in it but when I do ( similar to investing money for a wheel ) get to use it, the experience will probably be "superior" to using knife and fork.
Still tastes the same though........
When you have two Ford GTs, a Porsche 911 GT3 and a few version of the Nissan GTRs etc., I doubt he'd spent time on a video game. I do believe when he says he use it as a training tool for the Nurburgring races and for that he's more than likely using steering wheel rather than controller.
