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It would be, after all this time ... an implicit acknowledgement that sidestick input information is valuable after all, or even worse, could be necessary
Which would be a problem why? Airbus are not the arrogant shysters you seem to think they are - they'd never have put that stall article in their safety journal if they were. The fact is that yes, in some situations some kind of input representation could be useful, but the majority of the time it is not especially so.
To my recollection there has been precisely one non-fatal incident and one accident where it might (stress *might*) have been useful for the PNF to see what the PF was doing with the stick. That's not many bearing in mind we're talking 23 years of FBW Airbus service these days...
I don't see why the "big red button" is coming into the discussion again either - this was not a "what's it doing now?" accident. Indeed the aircraft effectively gave them the BRB effect - giving the pilots full authority plus autotrim in Alternate Law, which at least one of the pilots mishandled. I'm loath to go back to what I was saying several threads ago, because I don't want to induce a hamster wheel effect, but this kind of accident has happened in non-automated aircraft as well - I don't think the FBW had a hand in this case either. Some may disagree, but so far there has been no evidence to support that assertion.