In my limited experience, HH Beast and Mig15 with AS3X (and a bunch of helis), the gyro is looking at your stick position and providing the rate of roll, pitch, or yaw requested. So it will keep your aircraft level or in a knife edge or whatever if the sticks are centered (no change requested) and it will give whatever control throws you request when you do move the sticks. My AS3X machines both do wonderful snaps, and when I center the sticks they stop instantly, very cool! I can do all this stuff without a gyro but the gyro really cleans things up, it is a revelation in these little machines. I have had the gyro do some weird things in gusty winds when flying harrier type maneuvers as the planes are tiny and the gyro is trying to keep them on course, but again, if I am actively moving the sticks and flying thru the gusty conditions it is not a problem. BTW I liked your response to the haters but really, just ignore them if you like gyros.
On the subject of snaps my preferred method is to lead with elevator but you have to be quick with that so it doesn't show as an elevator break followed by a snap but rather a snap only. So from level flight or any other attitude my right stick goes straight back to the full up elevator no aileron stop and bounces back diagonally to the full right aileron no elevator position, like a check mark, and back to center. Meanwhile my rudder stick follows, in this instance full right rudder with a little burst of power to keep forward momentum and centered again. There are an endless variety of ways and attitudes do do snaps but this will give you a quick clean one that you can mix in to spice up other maneuvers. Try a 3/4 snap to knife edge if you like K/E