Not one proposition offered to mitigate the THS fatal flaw here was NOT looked at by Airbus.
One thinks one can solve a problem that one assumes to have been OVERLOOKED? By AIRBUS?
3hl : perhaps the solution to a "go to your room" command to THS in other than NORMAL LAW is not necessary afterall.
Airbus, in their wisdom created AL2 with ROLL DIRECT. PITCH NOT DIRECT.
They still wanted the a/c to have some "say so"
The pilots can be trusted with ailerons and spoilers, but not the TAIL.
Initially, when the THS did NOT contribute to the zoom climb, it looks like a good idea.
Let the elevators nudge the a/c into a crazy climb with the Computers help? YES. The climb is a pattern of UP nibbles and retreats, in thrall to the PF's STICK. With each nudge to a higher AoA, the computer forgot the last one, and the zoom climb resulted. Then at the top, it forgets its last nonsense, and tries to maintain a load.
Going up, maintain load, at the top maintain load. The PF is not the only one who appears to have lost his "mind".
So the THS was not "Jammed"? Baloney. Two powerful motors were holding it against the Top curb. It was free to move only upon command, a command of NOSE DOWN. It recieved plenty of these, but the computer disallowed them v/v THS.
Pilot responsibility? Of course. AIRBUS? You make the call.
If elevators can (and should be) used to recover, or maneuver, or maintain, etc. Whose idea was it to throw in a silent partner?
Flying is NOT inherently Dangerous, that is a bromide, and demonstrable for those of us who hang on to the hero pilot meme.
It is inherently SAFE, as the statistics PROVE.