ED Support said that it wasn't their issue and that I should be here instead so heres the message I sent them.
Hello! Ive been having some issues with the f18 and the f16's TGP. When I use my throttles knob to zoom (which ive verified is working fine with 0 delay) DCS only responds to it about a second later and it moves extremely slowly. Is this by design or not? I would love if the display accurately reflected the zoom knob since that would make it incredibly easy to make adjustments.
On another note, out of the 10 times ive taken off with the f16s TGP 9 of them would not work properly. Every time it wasnt working the TGP was 'jiggling' and would not let me lock any targets. This has made the entire targetting pod useless. I have lots of hours on the f18 and not once have I had this issue.
