Both Boeing and Airbus make very good and clever aeroplanes, that can basically fly themselves all the time. Albeit each with some gotchas. They have to make them clever and highly automated.
Why?
Because there would otherwise not be enough sufficiently experienced and competent pilots to fly the worlds aircraft. Imagine nothing but a fleet of 727 or A300 equivalent technology aircraft flying the globe today. There would be major crashes every week.
OEB 48 is straight forward to action, SAMPUBLIUS makes a good point though. Under stress it can sometimes be hard to find the "non instinctive" push buttons in any modern aircraft. Think about the last time you had to find the evac or cabin oxy switch/button under pressure in the sim. This is a work around fix and was clearly never anticipated by Airbus.