Call me old-fashioned but I do grimace when I read or hear people talking about 'kicking-off' the drift with regard to large commercial aircraft. The aircraft we fly today with powered controls feeding large control surfaces do not need aggressive inputs in normal operating conditions and crosswinds up to limitations should fall into that category. I seem to remember Leo Sullivan, the highly esteemed Lockheed test-pilot, warning against sudden control reversals whilst the Airbus accident in New York just after 9/11 involved very exaggerated rudder inputs.
Perhaps we could smoothly squeeze in rudder inputs balanced against opposite aileron rather than 'kick-in' a bootfull of size tens ?