Hi DozyWannabe,
all you need to know is to take care to stay within the flight envelope outside of Normal Law
I agree.
Unfortunately I think some pilots may rely on the Normal flight law protection too much. As Bruce Dickinson says in his video you posted on post#170 "Airbus Trepidation - convince me otherwise," at time 5:35
"Full back stick - panic stations" is exactly what PF seems to have done.
It's a pity Airbus don't preach sensible aircraft handling and use the protections as the "belt and braces". I'd personally like to see the removal of advice such as:
"This includes the use of Full Back stick if required" during the windshear recovery. On previous aircraft types, we simply flew sensible pitch attitudes and never mentioned "Full Back" anything.