Mooneyboy , I think you might be overthinking it a bit. Whatever you fly, in whatever state, you just need to apply whatever control inputs are required to get it going where you want...
If it’s banking during decrab, you just put enough aileron is required to stop it - be it in Direct or Normal Law.
We’re pilots, not robots after all...
Having said that, x-wind + Direct Law is an interesting scenario for the next sim...