Hopefully that decision is based then on sound engineering and aviation principles. I can certainly see that as a “better than nothing “ approach, and I can ima

Hopefully that decision is based then on sound engineering and aviation principles. I can certainly see that as a “better than nothing “ approach, and I can imagine some failure scenarios where it might even be the -best- solution… but it would seem that that operating mode would at least merit enough training so that pilots would recognize the operating mode, as well as some kind of obvious indication that the airplane was electing to algorithmicly synthesize the control outputs. Wouldn’t it be better to simply hard-lock the controls together, with a release switch for each control to allow either pilot to unlock their controller from the other in case of a stuck control system or an uncooperative pilot? That would seem to capture the benefits of de synchronizable controls while avoiding the empirically problematic downside.