Surely any half decent professional pilot should be able to look through the FD if the commands are rubbish
I think that may be the problem. Continuing dumbing down of professional standards, cost driven sim sessions merely ticking the regulatory boxes, pilots as SOP not even doing take-off briefs, regulators who don't understand what they are regulating, flight ops departments driven by costs, regulators not picking up the signs, Airbus creating (nearly) idiot proof jets.......predict the end path.... its not difficult. Its when the accident rate from incompetent piloting, bad training and cost-aggressive management starts to rise unacceptably. This one was lucky.