[Renegade_]

What exactly did you expect to feel through the steering wheel? If you can literally feel the steering wheel and column move with striations in the road then you don't have your **** mounted properly because that isn't supposed to move....

The WRXs have a good steering rack (compared to all N/A subarus) but are still lacking vs. the STi/Evo and older JDM WRX/STi models. What you might be mis-construing as lack of feedback is the sheer weight of the awd system taking up the shocks and bumps of the road without making you feel everything.

Something that I had to get used to when I first starting driving my car was that there is a lot more "inertia" to move in an AWD car in terms of drivetrain.

E.G. - Heel-Toe downshifting, if you over-rev the downshift a bit too much and let the clutch out early instead of getting a huge lurch with the car like you might with yours, a higher percentage of the energy from the motor will be put through the drivetrain and it will absorb more of the power the motor is making due to the inertia and weight of the drivetrain. This might have been a dumb example but it is one way I can explain driver induced AWD characteristics.

This isn't lack of feedback, this is what AWD feels like.