Yes, it does, but corporate arrogance being what it is, it perhaps
takes 200+ innocent bystanders to lose their lives before they are
shocked out of their complacency. Give Airbus their due though, they
seemed to have made all the right moves in terms of recommendations,
but they were not legally binding. The real problem was much further
beneath the surface though, in that the system design is not robust
enough to provide consistent and accurate information at all times,
including operation beyond the limits of checklist logic and "painting
by numbers" error recovery procedures. Human error is to be expected
and must be accounted for in the design.
Of course, it's easy to say that the a/c type has millions of safe
flight hours. Doesn't mean that the design is right, just that the
edge case problems haven't showed up yet...