henra, CONFiture.
henra's comment ( "a/p mistrimming, disconnecting and handing back", etc.), was one of the very first progenitors of passionate disagreement here on thread. I said, (roughly) that getting the a/c back under these 'unproven as yet conditions' would be like having a wet enchilada dumped in one's lap. Distracting, uncomfortable and in immediate need of a clean up.
THS as TRIM versus THS as CONTROL? How can one be separated from the other? It seems an incestuous combination of duties, and ripe to provide confusion.
As CONFiture has said, "One way or the Other". SA should be natural, intuitive, and rapidly moving. Stopping to think just to get a handle on the moment seems a dangerous waste of time.
Doesn't the Computer (FCS) take as much as TEN SECONDS to validate a LAW? In some situations, one imagines ten seconds may be an eternity, and in danger, delay is the Devil. (Unless it is appropriate, there's the rub).