OAP. A/L xwd limit 25 kts. The align mode is a sub mode initiated about 500’ which adds some wing down (max aob 2deg) if the crab exceeds 5deg, so a bit of both really. Very rare for lo vis to have much in the way of windiness so i’ve not seen a lot of this going on.
As as for terminology ‘kicking....etc’ is a bit of shorthand and I sort of take the view that no one is going to be using this forum as a definitive teaching aid for technique.
dh