And to address your high and fast example from a previous post: Yes you have to pitch down initially. Pitching up and flying even higher above the intended path would be senseless. But the AOA is still increased. It’s just a a slow increase, corresponding with the airspeed bleedoff rate. An immediate increase would result in a balloon, same as a flare with excess speed and a pre-programmed stick pull (that would have been correct for a lower entry speed).
When you’re talking about these tings, you attach labels like “pitch for airspeed” that represent more subtlety about rates, etc., than can really be contained in 3 words. Also that by “pitch” we really mean AOA rather than directly pitch. But the elevator controls AOA and we sometimes use “pitch” as a synonym for “elevator usage” and there you have some confusion.