@DozyWannabe
Perhaps Airbus tries to use K.I.S.S. principles, but the result is all but "simple". Since four years posters are unable to get a complete list of the flight laws, that list seems long like a day without bread, they are thousand (perhaps a little less I agree) exceptions, inhibitions, considerations, litterary-philosophical descriptions instead of equations. No reason to think that in a normal flight things are simpler they are only hidden until they pop-up when the captain takes his rest crossing Inter Topical Front and then all these hidden things, appear with an orchester of warnings and alarms, THS does is dance alone, zoom climbs appear, Wonderful! Everything but simple in the final "design" . Something works not as wanted!
Boeing is not better with his dreamliner. The idea to use these Li-Ion batteries seemed to be K.I.S.S. Now we see them reparing the burned fuselage in Heathrow...(not in! out! winter coming, inventing how to repare carbon fiber and inject resine, and losing much money, but at the end it will be said Crew are expensive and dangerous... etc. etc.
Today nor Airbus nor Boeing keep it simple in facts and result. It is theory, dream and narcicism.
And airlines don't do better : I cannot trust it , I read that more than 500 Air France people are supervising so said "human factors", how is that possible? Asiana tried an ultimate simplification : no more show outside at landing and don't push throttles.
You are right if you say it is sarcastic, but isn't it time to wake up and see that reality is diverging from the wants and wills?
Still an exemple : despite A33Zab does the best he can to do the things simpler, clearer, he had to write that sentence : "The Alpha floor can also be inhibited by the FMGEC under certain engine failure conditions with flaps extended". Why all these secrecy theater? I suppose these "certain conditions" are no so simple.
Double standard? At theater every actor plays a role.