but it's not a huge angle change (about 5 degrees according to my trig)
Maybe true if you were at the ship's cg, which is down by the engine somewhere.
Up on deck and 50m from the cg, the physical heaving and rolling gets a little exciting. And I have only landed on bigger (for Oz) boats of Supply and Tobruk and the carrier Melbourne. The smaller boats need balls of stainless steel.