I think I understand what you mean, and I had not noticed that this happens to all the switches in the cockpit. Maybe due to alignment/positioning the effect goes unnoticed or as normal, I don't know. But this is what startled me in this case, maybe I always dragged it. I'll have to pay attention to that effect to the other switches to confirm. As in this case it's left to increase, right to decrease due to the knob moving counter-clockwise.
However, if that's the case (intended design) and we mean the same thing, it seems to me more ergonomic/expected from a scroll-wheel perspective, at least where the HSI panel is concerned, that when I scroll forwards the knob moves up and when scrolling backwards that it moves down. (i.e scroll forwards > FULL VOR, scroll backwards > plan).
The reverse is happening at the moment, it stands out when scrolling I guess because, the turn is counter-clockwise compared to the RANGE knob, which feels counter-intuitive to me at least