Agile - the nose pitch up is flapback which has to be overcome with forward cyclic to continue the acceleration.
Controlling angle of descent with collective while reducing speed gradually is one of the more difficult things to get students to do properly - there is a strong temptation to keep the landing point in the same place by moving the cyclic which just changes the speed.
As you say, in anything but smooth conditions, it requires constant small adjustments of cyclic and collective to fly the approach accurately.