All I can say , 5 pages into this thread, is Thank God I still fly a Dinosaur, which, whilst far from perfect, tends to go up at the rate I ask, down in a similar fashion ( with Left & Right similarly easily defined.)
Well that's deeply concerning; may I ask who you fly for so I can avoid them?
If you're only qualified for a mythical type that suffers no equipment failures or malfunctions whatsoever, on which you are happy to place total reliance, I would suggest a certain amount of complacency had set in.
I hope you're not representative, in which case I thank God for pilots who know their type well enough to understand what to do when their aircraft doesn't do what it's 'tended to' since Pterodactyls ruled the skies.