'ECAM_actions' and all others who are in denial about the merits of the protections afforded by Normal Law....Read Fly By Wire by William Langewiesche. You will find that during the flare over the water at max Alpha, the Stall / High Alpha protection did indeed play a small but significant part in saving the day.
bubbers44 said it nicely.
I think you also failed to understand my point that so long as you don't get close the edges of the "envelope" defined by Normal Law, whether Normal or Direct Law is active is moot.
Alpha prot only helps if you're near the stall, bank angle prot only works when you're trying to roll more than 67 degrees, and g load demand only prevents a pull-up exceeding 2.5 g.
I doubt very much that Sully attempted any of those things, so it rendered the protections utterly useless.
I'm more interested in why the tests in the sim failed to have a good outcome. Hasn't this been found to be the case before, that what happened in reality couldn't be replicated in the sim?
ECAM Actions.