the net effect of making the correct input appear to be the wrong one.
I completely concur. The Airbus philosophy basically changed the game during a cricial phase of the recovery by altering the system and handling behaviour and produced inconsistent aircraft annunciations just when the crew were desperate for reliable information.
I sinerely hope for a proper objective professional comentary on this story. The Flight Global article and David Learmont blog contain spin, is not factual compared to the BEA report and mixes up the chronology implying the cause lies with the crew when clearly such an assumption is neither fair nor reasonable at this stage. The hand of Airbus Industries at work already?