Recently flew with a utility guy who also instructs. discussing VRS, he argued that most pilots will encounter it at low altitude, so conventional rcovery is problematic. Utility is frequently in that low/slow/high power, so often tried alternates. His point was get out of the VRS losing as little altitude as possible, lateral cyclic, that's it.
On my expressing doubt, we did a full VRS, conventional recovery, lots of altitude lost, perhaps a couple thousand feet.
Repeat maneuver, VRS, right cyclic and almost immediate recovery. Jaw drop. I can't say that the VRS was as fully developed the second time...
Explanation offered was that maneuvering laterally adds airspeed, but unlike reducing power and nosing down, the lateral move gets you into a normal airflow with minimal altitude loss.