Good Lord, Nick, are you this obtuse and arrogant in real life, or just online? Or is it that you're just daft? Hard or reading? Your fixed-wing job evidently does not take up much of your time, considering how much of it you spend trolling this board. Do your bosses know? Or is it that they give you so little to do?
In my experience...listen closely...IN MY EXPERIENCE, when "classic" 206 LTE bites it does so without warning. The ship suddenly swaps ends. No pilot I know (including me, and I'm pretty damn good, but maybe you're that quick, Mr. Hero Test Pilot) can jab the pedal in quickly enough to stop the turn. It goes around. How far will depend on how quickly you do a couple of things, including stuffing in the rest of the pedal and reducing the collective. And this is what "got" all those Scout pilots back before Bell came out and "explained" LTE to us and made their problem everyone's problem.
Is this an aircraft problem? Yes! Is it a fatal flaw? Obviously not, as the 206 made it through CAR 6 certification and the FAA has not since seen to revoke it's Airworthiness Certificate (much to your dismay, I'm sure) or even look further into it like they did the MU-2 or Piper Malibu. As with AVRS in a tiltrotor, education and training can alleviate this handling "peculiarity." I.E. "Don't fly with the left pedal fully depressed unless you're an moron," and "Don't hover hover at high power settings with the wind up your butt."
Now as to your other point, personally, I am a professional pilot and whether in fixed-wing or helicopters, I do not continue a maneuvre with any control on the stops unless there is a very good reason (like someone is shooting at me). If you and Mr. Blender feel that this is a safe way to conduct flight operations, more power to ya! (More t/r power, that is.) I have reached control stop limits in various aircraft and I do not like it. Then again, I'm no Hero Test Pilot and I'm not one of these "anything-to-get-the-mission-done" guys.
You want a ship with a weak tail rotor? Ever fly an early OH-6? Or maybe "pre-flopped" Enstrom? Good grief! But we learnt to fly them within their (meager) limits, and didn't blame the aircraft's design or the mothers of it's designers when we got ourselves into a crash situation because we were such a dumbass.