Raise & Lower versus Increase & Decrease

I have the feeling that native English speakers prefer using TO RAISE / TO LOWER when the verb is TRANSITIVE to using TO INCREASE / TO DECREASE.
In my perception the latter are far more used INTRANSITIVELY.
Obviously TO RAISE and TO LOWER can only be used TRANSITIVELY, my point is that even though TO INCREASE and TO DECREASE can be use TRANSITIVELY, native speakers tend to use them INTRANSITIVELY most times.

Do you agree with my perception?

Raise and lower are only transitive.

Increase and decrease are part of a group of verbs that are known as ergative verbs in which the role of the subject1 changes with the transitivity; consider
"The stone broke the window" (transitive) -> the verb acts upon "the window"
and
"the window broke" (intransitive) -> the verb acts upon the subject

Ergative verbs usually are verbs that describe motion (walk, drive, run, fall) or a change of state (cook, melt, solidify, freeze, grow, shrink, die.) In other Romance or Germanic languages, these verbs often form their past tense, not with "to have" but with "to be".

This is in contrast to, for example, the verb "to eat" which is optionally transitive.

"He went into the restaurant and ate a steak." -> the verb acts upon "a steak"
"He went into the restaurant and ate." -> the verb acts upon whatever it was that he ate.


1I am using "subject" loosely.