PT6, the discontinued approach technique was removed by my company "apparently" on request of Airbus as it "apparently" had been causing problems.
As for disconnecting everything and just flying the aeroplane. Well yes of course you can BUT a very big BUT you are going to have to do quite a lot of typing once level to get flight plans nav aids etc etc back.
As others have said sometimes Airbus FBW types are not intuitive and must be understood. But they are good at what they do.
