Meikleour,
Your experience is better than mine, then. I bow to it.
I understand that you adapted and didn't overbank, or did you ?
The tendency towards wing level is what I remember, and I put it into the "heavier feel" that I experienced.
A contribution like yours is important as, past the factual treatment of the ACARS messages, the hypothesis on how this cockpit could have looked like (and the resultant conclusion that - on the basis of the ACARS messages - that situation was quite manageable), the airplane still crashed.
So, IMO, we have to string in more information.
I hope that we'll learn some more this afternoon.