Are you sure? Has there been a statement to that affect? It would actually make sense since I always think to myself, as I go screaming past something on the way to my destination, why are you telling me to slow down you idiot, I am nowhere near my target yet! But then, if it does mean that then what is it telling me when I DO get to my target? I am in the gravity well and slowing down as a result, but do you want me to slow down as well? Dumb computer. Make up your mind.
Actually, what annoys me even more is USS's behaving like a giant gravity well. That makes no sense to me at all - and I am very forgiving when it comes to immersion issues since I feel a lot of it can be made immersive by simply making it work in your mind somehow - but this one does bug me.