Yes, but what can you expect from engineers (Remember the joke about the engineer and the guillotine?). It’s another case of “to a man with a hammer in his hand...”, and was also a big issue in the Apollo program.
Being a retired engineer, I know well what to expect from engineers. However, Boeing engineers take a very different attitude towards pilots than EADS engineers, especially the French engineers. My thought process, were I designing a FMS, would be to assist the pilot, not try to replace him. Further, the last thing I would do is inundate him with worse-than-useless information in a tight spot. It is better for an instrument to stop providing information than to provide bad information. When you take away instruments, pilots are trained to fall back on other instruments.
I wish I had kept those IEEE journals from the late 80’s through the 90’s. American engineers aren’t quite in a position to say “we told you so,” but they are very close...