dragging it out, heh?
C'mon, Confit.
The jet and its FCS worked as advertised. And then the laws of physics and aero came into play.
It could be that 'bus folks did not do enough testing at altitude to examine all the "protections" and "floors" and such using flight idle, TOGA, etc. The jet did not have the pitch coefficient problem we had in the Viper, so it had plenty of nose down authority at high AoA ( although we saw with AF447 that the THS position had to be compensated for to get the nose down). Nose up is "limited" by the flight control laws WRT AoA, not the actual capability of the plane, and we had that in the Viper. You can command everything, but HAL is only gonna let the jet "obey" the laws, best it can.