Side stick
I have only flown one sidestick aircraft and on the training course the advice was to handle the side sitick "like you would handle another man's **ck".
That seemed that autoflight was the way that most guys used the aircraft, a combination of sidestick and advanced avionics encouraging people to not handfly the aircraft. This practice (or lack of?) may be at the root of the myth that the Cirrus is hard to fly.
To the suprize of some I would fly a visual approach with both the autopilot and autothrottle disconected and found that there was an aircraft hiding under the triplcated layer of autoflight systems.
PS One of the top management at Airbus recently said that he was concerned about the reduction in manual flying skills.
PPS one large UK airline had banned the practice of flying the aircraft with the autothrottle disengaged.