Have often tried to imagine dynamics of the rotor system as follows:
The collective introduces force (via pitch) into the blades `collectively' all at once.
The cyclic is then used to point that force in the direction you want to go, further increasing then decreasing the pitch of each blade as it `cycles' around each rotation.
Push cyclic forwards, back of disc begins to bite, tilting disc forward. Pull cyclic backwards, vice versa.
I
think I'm understanding it correctly...
When you introduce principles like gyroscopic precession, translational lift and lead & lag, its incredible anyone ever worked out how to make the damn things fly.