@Dozy
We've done this dance for years, you and I - I'm aware of your position and understand it, although I've never been 100% sure of your motives or agenda. As I said to Lyman, I'm not advocating sidestick over yoke - both have pros and cons, even for pilots. There are hypotheticals which favour yokes (which you've already pointed out), and there are hypotheticals which favour non-connected sidesticks (including artificial feel unit failure and incapacitation scenarios in which the incapacitated pilot is restricting yoke movement - how do you get their yoke free in a two-pilot aircraft without leaving your seat and letting go of your yoke?).
While I do favor real yokes as a little extra safety insurance, notwithstanding those Boeing crashes where they
didn't save the day, I find myself defending "joy sticks" in the case of your example. In answer to your rhetorical question above, I have to say, just push the override button! You prolly just forgot for a moment.
Why do you insist that CONF has "motives" or an "agenda?" My take is that he's truly concerned with safety above defending any one system; not such a bad thing, is it? Subtle imputation, dear me, that's not so nice.....