Sounds like over-analysis to me.

I remember being struck by a similar phenomenon while sitting in the
front seat of a biplane as a friend made an approach on a perfectly
calm day. I couldn't see my friend, but I could watch as the stick
did quite a little dance as settled toward the turf -- even though the
the air wassmooth and burble-free.

That in turn put me in mind of the tics and jerks and pattings of
furniture my blind friends exhibit, and which have been explained to
me as adaptations of proprioception that help them maintain their
equilibrium absent the visual input that the rest of us rely on.

In the cockpit, I think that many fliers unconsciously do something
like what Machado describes in order to maintain the "feel" of the
airplane in the flight regime where the ship does not respond to
control inputs as crisply as it does in cruise. Following the analogy
think of it as "flying blind with your eyes wide-open."

I'd bet that thinking about it would tend to screw you up.

Don