you may think you are hand flying the airbus...but
I am reminded of a FAA designated examiner who was asked to give an instrument check ride/instrument rating ride in a brand new Mooney
The mooney has a full time ''wing leveler'' and you have to press a button on the yoke to allow disengagement for a turn.
He called up the FAA and said: you can't give an instrument rating to a guy who takes a checkride with the autopilot on all the time.
The FAA said: give him the ticket.
But do you really think that guy is a good instrument pilot in any plane but a mooney?????
And this was some 30 years ago.