@ 568 Thank you for the correction.
@ NWA SLF, Pulling CBs in flight is not generally permitted, unless expressly ordered by a QRH or ECAM action. To "illegally" pull a flight control CB in flight without understanding what you are doing has nothing whatsoever to do with the design of the aircraft.
My point was that the A320 family is not even remotely 'klutzy'. One only has to do a walk around of a B737 and an A320 and do a cockpit set up, to see that the A320 is an order of magnitude further on from the B737. Systems and cockpit design, layout - even cockpit size - are all on the next level. This is not to say the Boeing is necessarily bad per se; it is just basic, and the wire rope flight controls and pulleys etc, were the level of technology in the 1950's.
The Airbus FBW stands tall as an extremely well thought out, well integrated and well developed design. The A320 family has three independent hydraulic systems. Five sources of AC power. Seven fly by wire computers, and all seven can be easily (and "legally") reset in flight via push button switches on the overhead panel.