DW:
you do realise that the accusation of arrogance you're levelling at A33Zab for saying what he's saying can also be levelled at you for insisting that yokes solve everything and are an objectively superior control method, don't you?
Some of us are heartily sick of this failure of logic of yours. OK,
I am!
Few, if any, have said anything about it being "superior" or would "solve everything." And
you talk about straw men! I, and others, have said until we are blue in the face, (like this):
that it MIGHT have helped. WE can't prove that it
would have, and YOU can't prove that it
wouldn't. This is simple logic. Very experienced pilots here have opined that it might have helped. You are fighting a battle that you just can't win; give it up, man! This issue is the MAIN thing causing the hamster wheel to go around endlessly. No one will ever know if it would have helped.
As an educated SLF, When I am riding in the back minding my own business, I expect that EVERY POSSIBLE SAFETY MEASURE is in place (if it were not prohibitively expen$ive). Not rocket science. You sound like one of those accursed bean counters, or else there's some sort of bias that we don't know about. /rant