"The best I ever came up with is that the bus helps me doing things that I can do well already, but is of little use when things go wrong."
My point from the outset. A genIII autopilot. Nothing wrong with that, if everybody, including the pilots, is totally conversant with the way it uncouples. And the ways it behaves in 'uncoupled' flight.
From the length of the thread, and the number of posts from those who fly it, and those who designed it, and their disagreements to this day,
Not so much.