Raising the front legs high enough to set them on your shoes wouldn’t just give you “control,” it would negate the downward slope of the table. I guess it’s on them for not setting up the tilt sensor, but that doesn’t sound like a particularly fun way to play unless you simply want to make that number go up.
In some games you can't hit some of the targets with the table in an elevated state because the flippers don't have enough power to hit a slow moving ball to the top of the table and up a ramp even with the reduced slope.
I think in some games with a working but insensitive tilt it makes the tilt sensor even less sensitive. Also I am pretty sure that I can nudge with stronger effect and better precision in the elevated state.
Now, there is a tilt sensor on most pins (and even arcade games) that is likely to be in working order which is the one on the coinbox. The coin mechanisms on most of those games is pretty rudimentary and if you hit the front of the machine hard repeatedly you'd be able to get free games if there wasn't something that would clear out all your credits for doing so. The thing is that there are techniques to get the ball back from the drain that involve impacting the machine at the right time and those techniques are pretty dangerous because they risk triggering that tilt sensor.
