Exactly John. It is a basic flight discipline.
If you are current and can fly an Airbus solidly on raw data whilst managing your flight deck. You are in a good position to do the same in alternate and direct law. Flying raw data in normal law is more demanding than flying in alternate or direct law with the benefit of Flight Directors. Flying raw data in alternate and direct law is only modestly more difficult than normal law.
And as Capt Bloggs mentioned and has been pointed out earlier in the thread, GA in Airbus has had two hull losses due disorientation- with countless close calls affecting most Airbus operators. The reasons are many but if a crew can look through the FD's and correlate simple raw data into a scan, you are not likely to hit the water nose low in TOGA!
Someone mentioned unusual attitudes. Did some very good Airbus-Boeing upset recovery training in Ansett. I have not seen it since ( though heard of plenty of incidents ). It was brought into the program due concerns civilian pilots may not have had any such training. And also due concerns that military pilots of high performance aircraft may be too aggressive on the rudders.