Game Control: activating 'Sit' action when not near ground is disorienting

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Second Life Project Game-control 26.4.0.34938711376 (64bit)
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Description

If the user activates the 'Sit' action on their gamepad (default button: West/X) on a game controller, the agent warps to sit on the ground, but the camera does not move with the agent. The net effect is that the agent disappears, which is disorienting.

Reproduction steps

1. Login with the game control viewer, and connect a gamepad.
2. Hover the avatar dozens of meters above the ground
3. Press the West/X button to activate the 'Sit' action

Actual results:

• The avatar immediately sits in (3), but the camera remains at the original location. The avatar is 'lost' unless the user manually moves the camera to avatar's position on the ground: https://youtu.be/54HxXEbkKmg
• If the user enters mouse look mode after sitting, the mouse look camera position is also still in the sky - nowhere near the avatar
• If the user presses West/X a 2nd time to stand up, the avatar warps back to the camera position

Expected results:
The classic non-game control behavior involves right clicking at a certain point on terrain or an object and right-clicking 'Sit' from the context menu. If the avatar isn't within a few meters of the sit target, the avatar will activate autopilot mode and attempt to get near the object before sitting. This classic behavior is not great either, since autopilot mode will fail if the avatar hits an obstacle.

For game control sitting, we could either:

1. Do the same thing as non-game control sitting - have the avatar engage autopilot to move near the sit location before sitting. The camera would be following the agent the whole way.
2. Allow the avatar to sit from high elevation, but warp the camera to follow the agent.

Start by tracing the gamepad West/X 'Sit' action and the camera behavior when the avatar is far above the ground. Reproduce the sit, mouse-look, and stand-up cases described in the issue. Before implementation, confirm whether the intended result is autopilot to the sit location or moving the camera to follow a direct sit; done means the avatar and camera remain usable in each case.