Nick1
I absolutely agree with you ! ... said that, I think that everyone who hold a commercial license must be able to revert to basics anytime. Obviously night-flying is not the best moment in which we should train to do that !
An Airbus 320 is never an airplane like another, because in that situation the other aircraft we keep in mind would always crash before ... We can analize a similar to Airbus in terms of redundancy: the new Dassult Falcon 7x.
" Mechanical controls means flying roughly, FlyByWire means flying safely ! "
Best Regards,
captain87