Hi BOAC,
... it is the attitude to the implementation of "the glass cockpit and FBW" and its interface with the pink and fleshy bits that operate it that I "despise"..
I tend to agree with you. If you keep taking tactile feed back away from a pilot, then you reduce him/her to a visual clues only input processor. If the FBW computers couldn't cope without valid airspeed information, is it a bit too much to expect a human to do a better job without the benefit of a "conventional aircraft's elevator feel"?