Okay - sorry for being somewhat OT - I just want to point out why feathering is useless, so I dug out an old longitudinal grip vs. slip graph and coloured it a bit. What you can see here is the slip ratio on the X axis, versus the grip (measured in G) on the Y axis. That means the farther we go right, the faster the tyre is rotating compared to the ground speed.
Looking at the colours, we see the blue line, which is where we are most of the time in most situations. On launching, the left blue line is obviously worse than the right one, because it means we use less grip than available, so you can see that as the bog-down line, while the right one is the burnout line. Then we have the green line, which is the start of the little extra grip bump we have, while the red line marks the falloff.
Seeing from that curve, we have more grip at a range from about 0.06 to 0.15 slip ratio. At this point I have to confess, that I'm not quite sure what exactly that ratio is, but I think 0.06 means that the tyre is rotating at a 6% faster speed than the ground below it.
So overall we have a slip range of 9% in which we have more grip. But unfortunately, this isn't quite the case in practice. Because of the falloff nature of the red zone, there will only be very little time spent in that zone, because once we're in red zone it's a quick train ride to blue-land, so we actually have to remove that from our useable range. This leaves us with the puny range of ~2% slip (green zone), in which we actually have reliably more grip than usual.
Now, when you're feathering around, this is very likely going to happen: First you start off in the left blue zone, not giving enough throttle to actually use all grip, wasting time. Then you realize this and apply more throttle, bumping you to green for a split second, then into red and quickly to the right blue zone. You hear tyre spin noises, and back off a little. The grip approaches red, then snaps back into green zone, but because your throttle is not high enough anymore to hold it there it quickly dwindles down into the left blue one, wasting time. Now you apply a bit more throttle and... repeat ad infinitum (= till you reach 2nd gear). All the split seconds you spend in green and red are nice, but far too short to compensate for the loss in left blue zone. Overall it's better to stay in the not-so-optimal but absolutely reliable burnout zone than spending even a split second in the bog-down or not-using-all-grip one.
Personally I think I've only managed a perfect start once after countless tries in the BF1 on a test-layout. I immediately noticed it because the tyres were nicely chirping along, directly on the border between tyre squeal and scream. I couldn't yet reproduce it and I think it was pure a**luck. The benefit from that start? About 0.03 seconds till I reached the finish line (a few metres down the road). Not very impressive, compared to the difference a good start can make in real life.