RE: digital vs analogue
With the proliferation of high performance planes like Yaks, Extras, Sbach's you can definately tell the difference if you can so much as fly knife edge or do a snap roll.
Any intermeidate helicopter pilot can tell the difference.
Any competition pilot can tell the difference.
If you fly a platform like that enough to get familiar with it, then install decent digital servos, a good percentage of the pilots will be able to tell the difference.
Putting in circles in a cub, probably not so much.