Hello again, Clandestino, ¡Feliz año nuevo! *
After your 5 years or so on Airbus, you certainly cannot be accused of under-confidence... Anyway, glad you like the aircraft as much as I did.
Decisiveness and single-mindedness are laudable attributes in a pilot, but in a multi-crew environment they need to be tempered by a willingness to listen attentively, time permitting, before rubbishing the opinion or advice of other crew members. Dismissing reasoned arguments with sarcastic one-liners is not the way to win people round to your point of view.
To someone who forty years ago was flying big jets at present-day speeds and cruise altitudes with no FMS or A/THR; with AP/FD systems that needed to be told what (changing) pitch attitude to fly in the climb and descent, and could barely lock on to an ILS - let alone perform an autoland; it’s faintly amusing to have one’s careful explanation of the mis-selection of an FMGS mode dismissed with:
“know where you are, know where you need to go and don't trust the autopilot blindly or basically: Flight order says you are a pilot, so act like one for ******’s sake!”
* (Carefuly preserved the ~ for you...)