In all fairness to Capn, the THS would have trimmed nose down if the PF would have commanded nose down with his stick forward for whatever time constant the computers use. I beg all the "new" folks I have seen this past week to go thru the thousand posts on the other thread.
The THS implementation was discussed at length, and several of us agreed that it did not help things if the pilot continued to hold aft stick. Otto tries to reduce your stick position to achieve one gee corrected for pitch attitude, even in some of the reversion modes. 'Direct law" is a different story, and the AF crew never got there.
I shall continue to argue that seeing or feeling the other guy's stick or column or whatever was not the primary contributing factor to the crash. Tried to explain this, but I guess some folks don't understand.