Yeah but .....
....you forgot to mention the ventral strakeythingy made of marine ply and duralamin which was supposed to help with lateral stability in addition to the sticky-uppy-downy thingies. The strakey thingy also provided irrefutable evidence of QFI's millisec of loss of concentration as he said "Now rotate positively, stick back - NOT THAT MUCH !!!!" Clunk.
NO! We didn't smirk. Honest guv.
To go back to MAD comps, there is still at ISK a pilot with the smoothest pair of hands when it came to that manouevre. One barely noticed that it was happening. He had the knack of reversing the roll or pitch manouevre juuuust before the bottom of the roll/pitch limit so that the reversal was imperceptible.
The Ancient Mariner