A wise instructor once explained to me that modern cockpits turned the high workload phases of flight into even higher ones and the low workload phases into lower ones. Neither situation is ideal.
Dutch Roll.
I find this an apt description of legacy Airbus technology. Day to day, on a green line from ILS to ILS, very easy, mind numbing flying.
When things go wrong, and you need to understand the language of the redundant systems and their limitations, workload is far higher than day to day op's.