I don't believe very small quads, at least the ones for sale today, CAN be trimmed out. With little mass it takes less variance in thrust from any prop to send it off course. Every component in a <$60 quad is specd. right on the edge and every corner is cut for weight reduction. Brushed motors (only a very few are brushless at that size) are NOT speed stable, and ones driven to be cheap small and light are less so. I don't believe a cheap 1S LIPO can provide stable power, and there is no capacitance anywhere on a micro or nano class quad that might buffer that variability, and not enough mass to smooth it out either.
At my local hobby store, the "quad guy" cannot hover anything they're willing to fly indoors. He cannot demonstrate anything holding position and altitude FINGERS off, much less for the time it takes to put the remote down and snatch it back up again. Nor will any of them remain in lateral position with only throttle adjustment.
If you learn on a very small quad with little stabilization, you are donning a hair shirt and flagellating yourself. If you enjoy that, by all means, go ahead.
Keeping a quad in the air and stable without air foils is quite a feat. It's something like flying the original F17, which would never fly without many computers making constant micro-adjustments to the control surfaces. I don't believe I've ever seen anyone plug the ESCs directly into the receiver on a quad and FLY. If folks concede that they wouldn't attempt to fly these things without a controller, I don't understand the rationale for the "machismo" of making it arbitrarily difficult.
Piloting a quad is difficult enough with just overcoming the mind trip of head-in flight, and learning 3-axis turns. I totally agree it is important to practice until maneuvering your quad becomes second nature, and flying "forward" feels natural and just laterally pitching the thing feels odd. I'm all behind that. What I don't get is the zeal for the artificial "rigor" of turning things off. We don't do it learning to drive a car!
If you buy a small quad to learn on, never make the mistake of assuming a larger one will just be larger with the same bad flight characteristics. It won't be, so don't get discouraged!