Maybe you just need a big red "GO-FOR-BROKE" button for those cases
where flying according to the book is guaranteed to result in a
premature meeting with the ground.

In cases where extremely rapid reaction is necessary (such as waking up and
realising you are about to hit a mountain), the best thing to do is to put all
controls to their maximum and let the computer decide exacvtly how much can be
done and dyunamically change that as the plane starts to respond to those
requests for maximum change.

"Going for broke" will only yield a stall if you try to command maximum climb
when your speed just doesn't allow it. And in an emergency situation, does the
pilot actually have the time to think about just how much of a climb angle he
can achieve before stalling at current speed ?