As you say, "Not horrible, certainly not great", not for us aviation types, but for the run of the mill passenger they don't expect to feel any movement from their flight, most of them that is. I have been in a great deal worse to, one being a Gear Up Landing, but that is in the extreme. To say he was traveling at 200 fpm is the same as me saying that the passengers swallowed their false teeth, and they felt it..... its all a probability but you and I don't know.