Vertical offset control in Inspector direction is contrary to expected

The vertical offset control in any element's inspector has two direction buttons, up and down. When clicking on the up button, the element goes down and the other way around when clicking the down button. This is counterintuitive, especially given that the horizontal offset does work as expected.

I guess the problem arises because the vertical position is thought of screenwise (the vertical coordinate of a pixel on a screen increases towards the bottom of the screen). But most people will think coordinates as in a cartesian diagram (especially the musicians, for whom the pitch metaphor is strong).

While eventually one gets used to that, the cognitive disruption is so big that sometimes I find myself attempting to use the horizontal offset in the same ackward way as the vertical one!