Dozy;
Not wishing to sound facetious, but would you care to provide examples of where this has been the case any later than, say, 1994 (when the death of senior test pilot Nick Warner on a demonstration flight caused them to re-examine their priorites)?
Sadly unfortunate the example you quote, because it should be a warning to us all. This happened to a very experienced test pilot, at the end of a very busy day. Basic mistakes were made; if it could catch him out, then God help the rest of us. (Don't have the link to the report, but am sure somebody will provide it).
Re; software/hardware anomalies, a few come to mind-(Indian Airlines A320 open descent into ground at (Bangalore); Air Inter A 320 VS/FPA confusion and subsequent descent into ground -already mentioned;(Austria?); Air France A320 low flypast into trees (Paris?); Air Transat 330 fuel leak/crossfeed mishandling anomaly with glide landing into (Azores).
Don't get me wrong; as stated earlier, I am not bashing Airbus; some of these accidents were in the early days of FBW of which Airbus were the pioneers, and good on them. They are truly innovators. But there is no denying that their systems are not easy to understand, and they did make changes after each of these accidents. But then so did Boeing, and they have been in the business a lot longer.