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I would go for that one - I did not find anything in the FCOM to state otherwise.
And nothing in the FCTM states that 17.5 degrees AoA is guaranteed in such a scenario, but you still seem to take it as gospel.
To lose 1kt/sec is very soft and normal and certainly nothing to restrain the AoA at 15 deg.
The deceleration delta was nothing like stable at -1kt/sec throughout the sequence - try not to think about it as "restraining" AoA as anticipating where it will be if the aircraft continues to slow (which it would do until the engines have spooled back up).