glendaledoon:
It boils down to this. do you want a plane that obeys a computer or obeys a human pilot? I'll take a human pilot.
The problem is rarely the computer. The problem (and this applies to all industries) is most often the computer-human interface.
In trying to cope with so many variables the flight computer gets ever more complex. But where the computer has to interface with the human, things have to be simplified down to basic commands. This difference in capability means the human operator has no chance of understanding what the computer is trying to do, behind the scenes; and so if there are any i/o errors or hardware malfunctions, there is no chance a human can instantly trouble-shoot the problem.
The answer is not to go back to basic stick and rudder flying. The answer is to have more redundancy in the inputs, and not allow the computers to be disconnected. (Just, as you would not dream of disconnecting the flight control hydraulics.)