I can't live like this - Star Trek: Website

To the people who prefer the y axis be inverted I have one question: who hurt you?
Think of the stock on the controller as a head with your hand on top. If you pull the hand back, in what direction does the eyes move?
Except you’re wrong. The controller is on the BACK of the head, you know, where you’re looking. So both x and y should be inverted. Anything else makes 0 sense

Well the analogy doesn't perfectly work with pad controllers.

It does work with flight sticks. Vertical controls pitch (up and down), horizontal controls roll (tilt left and right). You've got pedals/stick twist for yaw (turn to right or left) or the hat/thumb stick for view angle change.

No I think it does work perfectly with controllers. It’s why Mario 64 had lakitu as a metaphor and had the correct, inverted x and y controls.