@ jd
"who knows what the handling feels like when the computer has been flying? And then the computer, where all this handling data lived as bits and bytes, flips the pilot the bird and says he has the stick. No WONDER pilots get confused when things pickle. They don't have critical data and there may be no good way to transfer that critical data to the pilot in time"
Is that any worse that if the A/P trips out on you leaving you in a seriously out of trim situation? one has an out of trim "normal" aircraft on ones hands when you least want it.. in theory at least (and I doff my cap to contributors on here who know far more as to the subtleties of the Airbus fbw system than most do).. you do still have an airframe that wants to fly at 1g/zero roll rate IF one remembers that one is not flying a "normal" airframe.