Having the FE simply monitoring a couple of screens is not going to work, he needs to have indications of the various system controls, together with suitable ways of controlling those systems, in effect, sidelining the computer from total contol.
Well the cost / benefit ratio of such a proposition is rather poor. I would venture to say that in 99.9% of the cases the computer would actually do a better job at a much lower cost... and for the remaining 0.1% I guess we will have to live with it.
As for the incident at hand I'm pretty sure that it will make the 380 much safer on the long run once lessons are learned (and all considered it did pretty well, flight engineer or not
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