EMIT
You mentioned posts 11 and 12.
Where do they say anything about "liking"?
My reading of them is that they were specifically discussing how to deal with a presentation that is different from the one you are used to.
It is worth remembering the past. The advantage of the Russian system was that it enabled a traditional small self contained attitude indicator (artificial horizon) to be topple free in a way that the west could not achieve until we developed the MRG systems of the 60s. Early western jets were a real pain (accident prone) if you got a bit enthusiastic with your manoeuvres above cloud and did not leave enough fuel to be able to fly wings level for the necessary time for the A/H to re-errect so that you could start a descent. This length of time could easilly represent 20% of the total sortie duration in those days.
JF