Originally Posted by RetF4
The normal feeling on the SS from day to day flying therefore is holding some backpressure to maintain the flightpath during landing or to rotate and climb during T/O. The necessity of ND SS input and the required amount of ND SS input in normal daily operation therefore differed grossly to that one needed to correct this unintentional climb.
A tendency to pull rather than push, combined with a concern for overspeed, in direct law as in alternate law, that sums it up nicely.