If I want to go fly a plane, then I will go fly a plane... granted.. I am not going to make it thru security & I have no clue how to fly a plane or even start it up...but If backwards is how it's going to be, then that's how I am going to do it.
How old are you? Have you never played older 16-Bit to 32-Bit games like, say, Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike/Soviet/Nuclear Strike? Though they are 3/4 overhead helicopter shooters. They have two gamepad options; the one that mimics flight movement - a la old Resident Evil, complete with inverted y-axis for aiming your nose. The other type is basically mouse control. Whatever direction you aim, is where you go (I have no idea/memory as to how you'd aim your nose in this mode either? Maybe auto-aim made it's debut here?).
But the bottom line of this story. One makes the game very enjoyable and does a great job at giving you the illusion of handling a helicopter. The other only exists because EA fought with the developers that the mouse type control should be the only one. Eventually the option for both was included when EA execs were out getting drunk off much Madden Football money one night.
But yes, many games in the past had inverted control scheme as only control method (because all devs were pilots back then). So many of us were raised on only this control scheme. And any game that doesn't give me the invert option, does not get bought or returned back.