There's a bigger difference, as I understand it, which is where airbus generally considers the pilot as managing a complex machine with a lot of automation (eve

There's a bigger difference, as I understand it, which is where airbus generally considers the pilot as managing a complex machine with a lot of automation (even without autopilots), and the inputs and controls reflect that, being a bit more abstract. Boeing basically tries to make every plane they make fly like a cessna, using the same basic controls but always adapting the interface to the same thing, even if that abstraction is leaky. There's upsides and downsides to it, but MCAS is one example of boeing's philosophy going wrong (in part exacerbated by trying to conserve the type rating and avoiding pilot retraining).