If weapons have no recoil in this game...why are there stability bonuses?

Hah, even the N7 Hurricane seems stable! My ME3 Hurricane didn't get stable until level 10 (and that with a stability mod). Got my first MEA Hurricane yesterday and it's good right off the bat (thankfully!) I say, don't knock it?

There's some recoil, but responsive use of your mouse can compensate most of it, so I figure many people just won't notice because they are manually compensating.

Because there is recoil in this game.

It's just not bad.

Indra has terrible recoil. Also Incisor and Sweeper.

Haven't run any tests, but it might have something to do with accuracy. Game developers often include all kinds of weird things into other stats (e.g. Destiny has accuracy tied into range of all things, meaning certain weapon types such as handcannons are pretty much pointless without maxing it out), so it could be that stability and accuracy go together in MEA. This is a hypothesis way out of left field though, so it's almost guaranteed to be wrong. Just a thought.

If it works like it worked in ME3, then the stability mod also increases accuracy (reduces spread), so even in guns with very light recoil you may want that mod on to make them more accurate.
In ME3 I used to equip the stability damper on the Phaeston (notorious for being a very low recoil weap) to increase its accuracy even further.