I wonder if this correlates with the preference for laptop touchpad's natural scrolling vs. traditional scrolling.

For me a lot of it depends on the perspective.

• For an FPS, I think non-inverted feels more comfortable. I generally just want the view window to move in the indicated direction, but I understand people that like it inverted.
• If it's third person, I actually prefer completely inverted (including horizontal). Especially with something like Dark Souls where one stick controls the player and the other stick controls the camera. It's more clear that the camera is an external entity and I'm controlling the angle, not the view window. It feels unpleasant and unnatural to me to push left and then also have the camera bend to the left.
• If it's a rail shooter like Panzer Dragoon or something, we're back to non-inverted. I'm controlling the absolute position of a targeting reticle and I just want it to move to where I want it to move.

This is the core option which justifies cross-title configuration in a user profile.

I have to correct Y to inverted in every new game I start playing, there needs to be a global options titles observe.

Inverted and ESDF is the One True Way

I have absolutely no idea when I expect the y axis to be inverted or not. Every new game I expect the opposite of how it is.

Did, I guess. For the past ten years. All 3d games make me too sick to play them these days.

Only in Ace Combat or Project Wingman.

Everywhere else down is down and up is up.

I play SO many demo or early access games without the Invert Y option, so it's off to discussions to ask the developer to add that so I can play.

I play like that because I've used flight simulators. I have no idea why people play the other way.

google street view!

This meme template is so versatile... I've seen it in at least 5 completely different contexts.