I believe this is a matter of individual preference and I think providing users with options to change these mechanics would be great! I 100% agree that center mouse + move should pan. But I also prefer the current scroll and I would like Shift+Scroll to scroll horizontally (as it does on any other web page).
- normal scroll (instead of ctrl+scroll which is typically used for making text larger) for zooming in / out
- holding center mouse button to pan around (currently scrolls page instead)