Agreed, the cone was not a hindrance in any way shape or form.
This is because you were not good enough at the game. I never had a problem using the cone. I was never "usually sacked when trying to throw 15+ yards".... Maybe I had a different copy of hte game than you? Maybe your game was just broken... that must be it.
Another great thing about the cone is you could actually manipulate a user safety with it! It was great, you could actually mimick a real life QB by looking to one side of the field, and hwen the user safety started to cheat that way you could then switch to the other side.
That's an element of the game that you cannot simulate at this time without the vision cone.