Back to the thread and we do seem to have an over-reliance on automation and computer control to makes things easier for humans but we seem prone to assuming that such automation is fail-safe.
But surely the problem is not an over-reliance on automation, its a lack of understanding about how the automation works, eg in the case of AF a lack of understanding that the FBW system had gone into a fallback mode in which flight envelope protection was disabled, due to conflicting airspeed data. Normally, holding the sidestick right back would have been fine. But not when the FBW is in fallback.
The answer is thus better training and checking that pilots fully understand how the automation is going to behave in both normal and abnormal modes, rather than having automation training and checking as an add-on afterthought as sometimes seems to be the case at the moment (in RW).