DozyWannabe
And your opponents (of which I am not one in the wider context) will argue he was spot on.....
To the extent that I have an issue with "Airbus", if I am to be dragged in to such a debate, it is limited to the "leap" from Concorde/A300 to the A320. More than incremental, and it should have been limited (at that stage) to the FMS move forward and not concurrently removed artificial feedback from the cockpit.
I cannot stress enough, as a pilot to a software engineer, the Pandora's box that was opened up in relation to line management perceptions on flight operations and training and which is at the very heart of what went spectacularly wrong with AF447. Airmanship plus - forget it.