I have to agree. I think people are paranoid about these products because of their expense. If they were cheaper people won't mind "messing" with them. Honestly, the whole gimbal suspension setup is fairly forgiving and fluid, it is just that they didn't do much (and I don't know if there is any way to do more without a ton of more expense) to make sure things stay "centered". Honestly, the "ideal" system for their current design would be some sort of clamping system to move the gimbal setup to center then expand back out to keep the suspension under serious tension while flying. That would make sure center is held and that it would have "predictable" compliance. The issue is that a system like that would add to the complexity and expense. Also you don't want it to be stored with that much tension, so it would have to "lock" in place when you shut the bird down.
Again, a simple matter of rotating the gimbal from extreme to extreme and back to center along with a gimbal calibration with the bird pointing up takes care of gimbal centering issues.