I see your points, and they make good sense. Hopefully we can get this info back to the devs cause it’s pretty common sense, basic UI stuff. I can’t see any drawback to doing it correctly and since it’s still in Beta this might be the only chance to get it right before it gets forgotten about for another decade.
The axis facing away from the user is such a middle finger. Like how you going to pretend that’s not an issue.
The middle-mouse button thing might be debatable but I’d have to agree that the common operation is uniform scale, arcball and pan translate.
Side note, the ctrl+mouse button has been a heavy asset in my day to day.