Some of us have arrived at a conclusion, some of us have not.
That about sums it up.
"Dead men tell no tales"
I get the feeling that some of you would defend Jack the Ripper if he happened to use your favorite brand of butcher knife.
If the airplane consistently does what it is commanded to do, how do you explain "auto trim"? When does the pilot command trim?
Why does it wander around the selected speed? (for you Boeing , Embraer, Canadair, Douglas drivers - the bus will vary by ten or more knots below 10Kft when fully automated. It trims for flight path, not for speed)
For the open minded readers, I don't condem these actions as defective or bad; they just are what they are. Contrary to the spin (partisan positioning) you read here, the Airbus takes what you input, processes your input through its brain and outputs whatever it decides appropriate. The aircraft responds to the SS one way in normal law, and another in abnormal, and another in direct. Imagine, if you will, the steering wheel on your automobile randomly varying tire steering angle for a given steering wheel angle. Fun, huh?