I suppose for me, the thought of being as vertical as possible and kicking the tail over comes from being taught by a crop-spraying-VC, retired-Wing Commander. 'It's a good plane to crash in', he said . . . more than once.
At astonishing weights, he'd pull the thing so near the vertical that there was not much difference. When pointing down again, it seemed as though the next track was a matter of choice. The point being, there was no wing loading until he pulled out. So, the question has to be, Is it better to use up one's energy pulling out of the dive, or pulling g in a 180-ish turn?
Hence the flaps. The DC3 for example, felt like it had released a drag chute and was hanging on it. With no loading, the flaps went down quickly, but with a double engine failure . . .
There's a horrible sequel to the Tiger crashes. Said instructor, who was becoming a friend, purchased a specialist crop-spraying aircraft from Spain. He flicked in a died very soon after.