auv-ee
with your disclaimer there is a severe limitation in a meaningful dialogue on Airbus laws. What you stated about stall training and recovery in Normal Law is completely erroneous. You cannot practice stall recovery in Normal Law because it simply won't stall.
. It seems possible, even likely, that the PF didn't understand that AL2 has no stall protection
I am sorry but with that level of ignorance you should be occupying passenger seat and not a pilot's seat. Why did they pull full back stick? Because nobody told them that in cruise in alternate law you never even for your life pull the stick fully back. Even otherwise you shouldn't be pulling on the stick without looking at the PFD.