NOD, ah! 'Twas Paris. Can't remember the details of why, only that it was spectacular. Amazingly good piloting to recover from it, along with the Interflug, but what got into it?
Your 'Rudder' section above should read:"As speed increases, full rudder (Pedal) deflection gives you less degrees of rudder deflection" otherwise it won't make sense to people here trying to get their heads around this new concept!
To explain 'Feel', you are absolutely right: "this just simply replicates a Cessna 152 where the controls get harder to operate as speed increase due to airload". Jet airliners do not have any airload effects on flight control surfaces fed back to the control wheel/pedals as the flight control surfaces are fully hydraulically powered (exception B737 and DC9), therefore you need to have artificially generated 'feel' fed into the flight controls, and obviously this must be compensated for with increased speed and altitude which is what the 'Feel Units' are for.