Salute!
@ FCeng, remember that PEI speaks from a test pilot point of view ( Pax River and then back in Britain). Gums speaks from having learned in WW2 observation planes and then flying 2 Century series jets and then a throwback straight wing beast that had its own aero problems, and then two more bent wing planes. One of those stretched the envelope for planes and we human operators more than any platform to that time. And so...
We operators expect certain things to happen when we command attitude/AoA changes and "trim" to keep from holding a force, pressure, position, etc
The 737 implementation of several modifications to the flight control system appears to many of us as kludge solutions to basic areodynamic problems. And to be brutally honest, a complete FBW system seems to me to be a better way to correct the plane's aero deficiencies ( THERE! I said it.) than all the gears, levers, cables, pulleys and then two electronic systems with connections to the controls that put reverse trim inputs than a pilot would! GASP!
Gums opines....