If the issue was about basic intuition and not changing a preference which exists because that's just how Adobe did it, you'd have a point.

These are preferences that exist because people learned a single, arbitrary way of doing things invented by Adobe, and can't be fucked to re-find the same icon.

A cursor following mouse movements makes intuitive sense, even to people who've never touched a fucking computer before. Not a professional piece of software that takes training to properly use, and years of experience to master.

Your mouse-axis example is a false equivalence and you know it.