Smudge,
I am sorry you think the "drivers" are ignoring you!
XV200 (it might possibly have been 300 thinking about it) was the only one that was seriously bent and we know who bent it! If it had been fully tested we would have had to lower the crosswind limit by quite a bit. All the rest handled very much the same as each other. You have to bear in mind the huge difference between a transport aircraft and a glider - you are much more likely to be flying close to the aircraft's limits in a glider and therefore much more likely to detect small differences in handling.