Cabin Rate
In the "good old days" when they were still building aeroplanes with a F/E station, normal practice was to descend the cabin at, ideally, 300'/min. Among many things in which F/E's took pride one was to make the descent of the cabin altitude to landing field elevation, whatever that may have been, as indiscernible as possible. Most times when I have experienced discomfort from pressure changes it has been in aircraft with no F/E. BTW, this not a criticism of pilots, rather of "automation". Those who flew the B707 will especially know what I mean about the value of having a grey headed old bugger looking after the "Environmental Systems".