Clandestino, good posting. Regarding, "So, as instrument rated pilot, I don't fly by feeling Gs, I fly by reference to my instruments," I might note that the PF forgot all that and relied, partially, on his feeling of great speed, if I remember the transcript correctly.
Sigh, all this comes back to training bean counters who follow rules and tick off each rule followed as another bean rather than training real pilots to actually fly the plane when the going gets rough.