If (BIG IF) the accident report were to come out showing a fault in the
FBW/computer system on board, does anyone really think that FBW will be
eliminated from this model or any other model aircraft? Of course not. But, then again, I doubt very much the report would indicate that whether it was true or not.
Aside from the cost savings involved and the fact that engineers now-a-days grew up with arcade games and computer games, what is the big deal with FBW anyway? As someone pointed out, the DC8/9 were the last 'real' airplanes that were cable-operated. FBW originated with the need to control very unstable military fighters. What's the need, other than cost, to carry it over to commercial aircraft? The old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" would apply here I would think.
If you couldn't tell, I'm not in favor of computers telling the pilot what to
do and what not to do. And, I like the idea of the control wheel and
throttles, etc. connected to something by cables, not an electric current.