In a Boeing you turn off the autopilot and autothrottle it becomes just like every other aeroplane you've flown. In an Airbus you turn off the autopilot and you still only have a rate of change controller. You don't actually control the aeroplane directly. In a boeing I could crank it over to a 45 degree AoB but I couldn't do that in an Airbus, the computer would overrule me. To make a Airbus something resembling an aeroplane you would have to turn off the protection modes and go to something resembling manual reversion.