So, when I got my Series 7, I saw this silly little spring and angle bracket and was a bit skeptical about it's function. I figured, hey, it must be messing with the control feel and maybe I should remove it...

Well, then I spent some time flying the plane. That silly little spring really does it's job. It really makes it so you don't need to do much trimming when going from downwind, to full flaps on final. Pretty neat. Now most of the time I don't use flaps anyways, but when you do it helps with the trim situation just fine.