There's no reason that would make the planes more popular. If keeping the planes more like Boeings was for the sake of minimizing training for pilots transitioning, it would make hardly any difference because there's already so many other huge differences in other systems.
For those already type rated, I bet if you polled all current Airbus pilots worldwide on how many would like Airbus to go back to yokes, it'd be less than 10%.
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