(b) when things go wrong, errors are expressed in terms of each "protection" that is lost -- one indication for each protection lost (or, where there are multiple levels of degradation, what degree has been lost and what is left).
O no, even as engineer I don't think a crew do like (and has the time) to read a novel on his ECAM.
The rules are simple:
NORMAL = I can do with the stick what I want.
ALTERNATE = I have to be gentle with the stick because I lost the protections.
DIRECT = I have to be very carefull with the stick because movement equals control movement.
There's more to Law degradation than only the pitch channel, other functions are inhibited or arranged in another way and/or during flight phase change.