There is a famous incident with an A330 test flight where the auto pilot system happily flew into the ground precisely because, unlike Bonin, it did not panic a

There is a famous incident with an A330 test flight where the auto pilot system happily flew into the ground precisely because, unlike Bonin, it did not panic and give in to the instinct to pull the nose back up. I'm guessing this incident made the engineers who designed the plane a little more eager to provide for a true unhampered manual override.