Cornish Jack is right and one needs to accept the old laws are still valid. Regardless of what The Book says, time and use has a way of introducing new problems.
I like the old sequence that is a time line for going on a new airplane...
1) What is it doing now and why? (1-3 months)
2) I have never seen that before! (3-9 months)
3) It does that some times... (after a year)
In the USAF we used to write stuff up and occasionally the mechanics would puzzle through trying to find the problem only to write, "CND" which stood for "Can not duplicate". It was a way to say they had researched the problem and could not find 1) the problem and 2) could not solve the problem.
So, I guess my point, not meant as a 1-line negative response, is that I knew the Capt who had the problem with the config and trim, knew of the FAA violation and knew of of the subsequent resolution of the violation. And from that event, whenever a crew aborted at my former airline, most NEVER explained to tower or ground why they aborted... just 'we are taxiing back', end of explanation.