Aviation owes its remarkable record of safety in one area.
One: Powerplant. Complexity existed because mechanical solutions could not keep up with how basically simple actual flight is. The Turbine and then the Fan made aviation wicked safe. The question we avoid, the Rhinoceros in the room: Why is it not much safer?
I submit that the actual flight control arena is a Straw man. 447 demonstrates this elegantly.
Carthusian is thus absolutely correct, imo.
Training? Skill? What about the rampant myopia present here on this thread?
AB have crafted for themselves a politically effective position of Carte Blanche from criticism.
With an arrogant ignorance of how simple the machine actually is, and not actually sophisticated as it is presented, they feign "misunderstanding" or "ignorance" on the part of the operator, as always, it is a fact.
It is indeed a machine that is safe and dependable. What is galling is the remarkable stubbornness they display when confronted with obvious blunders in its programming. These blunders include the attitude it takes to reactively defend them.