I'm struggling to articulate how horrifying I find that previous section. It is some of the most reckless, arrogant, patronizing, and incompetent systems design I have ever heard of.
To think you could *possibly* design software that would always work. To think that pilots didn't even need to know about it. And yet to somehow think that a pilot that *didn't even know the software existed* could somehow compensate in the "unlikely" case that something went wrong?