VF,
Where did I ever say I endorse the Vulchard Method?
What I have stated is an opposition to limiting VRS recovery to exactly one single method as you seem to be saying.
That kind of mindset....one size fits all kind of thinking.....is not the way life works in flying helicopters.
At altitude well clear of terrain you might be technically correct but when close to the ground you might just want to go towards a particular direction that might just in fact be not straight ahead.
You fly in some mountains....and thus probably understand there are times there might be lots of air under you to one side and lots of rock ahead and on the opposite side to the valley floor.
Would you not want to go towards the valley floor rather than the Ridgeline?