Flying a Boeing is still like flying an airplane.
Flying an Airbus is simply operating a computer.
I am a computer geek, and I spend so much time on my computers at home that my wife has to tell me to stop it frequently. I love the computer stuff.
But when I go to work, I want to fly an airplane, not a computer.
And when you consider that real airplanes do not even have electrical systems, you can see just how far from that Airbus has gone!!!
As to the Airbus's systems making it safer... consider that the safest thing on an airplane is a highly experienced stick-and-rudder pilot. That is what will keep out out of the trees. If I flew an Airbus for a few years, I think I'd need to go back through Private Pilot training again before climbing into a Cessna again. Not a good situation when basic flying skills erode. And if you don't think an Airbus erodes those skills, you are fooling yourselves. That is not a safe situation.