I must just be imagining that all of my PC FPS experiences were inverted, because back in the day I don't think I would've thought to change the default and would've just gotten used to it. I've played way more 3rd person games in the last several years.

Now that I think about it, a game like Half-Life 2 I think I would play non-inverted with the mouse... at least I think. Games like Oblivion where I switch between first and third person I recall giving me grief with controls, but not too much. I always adjust. my wife actually plays with controls that are the reverse of mine in Oblivion and it drives me crazy (both of us on PC) if I ever have to try something on her computer.

It seems I can adjust with the mouse to work either way, but something about the analog stick feels absolutely wrong to me. It's like I think in pilot mode or something. With a stick it seems like it should function the way a camera does on a tripod. You push the stick down to tilt the camera up and left to pan the camera right.

I guess I'll keep trying. It would be better for me to have ambidextrous camera control ability... but on the other hand it would be better if devs would just add a few more lines of code to make it an option to switch both axes.