9:"Golden Rule" instructions are all predicated on the presence of a very experienced, jaded yet competent crew to fly manually like a conventional aircraft when any unexpected or sub-optimum performance is demonstrated by the automatics, however subtle.
Yup, I couldn’t agree with you more on that.
As others are saying, FBW and envelope protection has likely saved many more lives than ended them but we are getting to the point that experience levels (that is experience in
directly controlling an aircraft in all flight phases) have deteriorated such that: a) realising something’s not right takes some time, b) working out what might be done about it takes yet more time and c) actually taking the aircraft by the scruff of the neck and putting it roughly where it should be has become a HUGE decision accompanied by much trepidation.
I was in the sim yesterday and did a couple of unreliable airspeed scenarios. Taking out the FBW after the initial diagnosis made it so much easier, as the aeroplane was no longer actively trying to kill you.