On salience of position...
The Airbus SS movement is measured in cm's so visual displacement cannot be accurately judged. In terms of tactile sense, if an SS is interconnected, one cannot know by feel or sight where the "null" point is. Small SS movements can result in significant changes in flight path. The initial SS displacements which occurred in AF447 to pitch the aircraft up eventually to 15deg would have been momentary, (meaning 'not steadily applied' but varying), and perhaps 2 cm's, 4 at the most. CC movement for the same result is as you say, small...may be the same numbers but in inches. Approximately...
It is only during the stalled-descent that one sees full-aft CC displacement in the accidents I was thinking of and by then if full-forward CC or SS isn't held in until the wing begins flying again, the airplane does not recover. Some call that a deep stall, but I'm old-fashioned because these stalls are recoverable whereas a deep stall is not; AF447 was recoverable; some say (and have calculated) down to FL100.