As a side note, I never test any system I tune with AE turned off. Sometimes I do turn it down a little, compared to what I think the final settings will be. The need for AE never goes away, why would you ever want to turn it off?
I tend to shoot for about a 20% increase in PW for about .1 sec in fairly rapid increases in MAP on most motors.

Look at the bottom trace in white. Right when I punch the motor, you can see the PW jump up and then settle into the VE table. note that the intire trace there is only 1.6 sec as shown at the bottom. This stuff happens fast.
Notice that in that test the AFR went lean but the RPM picked up instantly. It is hard to test that looking at just one punch. In the skis I tend to do thirty and then look at this stuff in scatter plot. I create a new field named RPM/SEC and then plot that in color. More RPM/SEC immediately after the throttle stab is the goal. A drop in RPM right after the stab is a disaster.
In the race cars, I tend to ask the driver "How are the shifts?" before he even gets out of the belts. If he flinches, I go straight to the logs.
Have fun tuning.
Andy