If you notice these refer to Transport Category Aircraft
Indeed.
However, were one to rub out "25" and pencil in "23" one gets much the same story for bugsmashers .. as in
FAR 23.173 and
FAR 23.175.
The interest is in what the pilot "feels" at the stick, not what wizardy fools him/her into experiencing that perception. You might read up on elevator down springs and bobweights to see the simple ways of making reality morph this way and that ...
A lot of discussion in this thread confuses the two basic stability animals ... "static" (when one applies a load to the stick) and "dynamic" (when one releases it and sees what happens next).