I'm not privy to what the console requirements were during each generation, and I don't pretend to be.
What is clear is that there was, for example, no need for players of f1 2015 to have to play from the t-cam because the default cockpit views were borderline unplayable and codemasters failed to include cockpit view adjustments -- something that had already been done on console before. There was also no need for people to boycott grid 2 because there was no cockpit view. These were design decisions plain and simple.
But even all of this is moot, because what we are talking about here is a simple request to add an on/off option for the steering wheel shake, and that isn't something that is prohibited on console.