I truly understand the uproar of the Airbus lobby, them therefore bringing up the (somewhat childish) "but it can happen and happened to Boeing too....."
This is true and it also lead to accidents, yes.
Fact is simply, that in a sensor malfunction with erroneous data and electronic flight signals, the one still allows to be flown with the good old a$$ relying on attitude, RPM, sound and so forth. The other one does not, see Qantas incident.
For my part, I simply and sincerely prefer the earlier, even if the systems are less elaborated and sophisticated and those marvels might have saved one or two. This however applies just as much to the other system (beeing childish myself). And remember: You do not HAVE to disconnect everything, but at least there you CAN.