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I'm guessing you've not actually experienced what the Superb III owners have been complaining about because, not meaning to sound rude, you're wrong. You don't and can't achieve the same result by simply pressing the loud pedal further or quicker. The underlying issue lies with a delay in the engine responding after depressing the accelerator and this time delay is the same no matter how far or quick you depress the accelerator. I don't know why this happens but I've long suspected it's tied in to complying with EURO 6. It's certainly not turbo lag nor DSG mapping, which are the usual culprits taking the blame.

This lag occurs with DSG equipped Superb III most noticeably when pulling away from a standstill where the engine revs are starting from tick-over and also when slowing for a junction or hazard, allowing the revs to drop, then applying throttle.

If you follow your suggestion from standstill you will simply get waiting-waiting-waiting-take off like a scalded cat. It's even more dangerous in the slowing down example because once you see it's safe to proceed and you apply throttle to accelerate and clear the hazard you find the engine revs are actually still falling and the car still slowing before the engine suddenly responds.

The Throttle Response is obviously far more sophisticated than those original 'Mercedes Boxes' which did indeed simply amplify the fly-by-wire signal. The Throttle Response results in virtually instant response from the engine to your throttle application and that isn't solely down to amplification of the signal. The addition of the Throttle Response means the car behaves exactly how you'd expect the engine to respond to the throttle in any car. It's just a shame we have to rely on a third-party utility to get our DSG Superb III's to behave 'normally'. There was no such lag with my Euro 5 DSG Superb II.

Without the Throttle Response fitted you can still improve the throttle/engine response from standstill by selecting Sport or, while negotiating hazards, using triptronic or flappy paddles, but if I wanted to be constantly shifting the gear selector I would have chosen a car with a manual gearbox (though that's not actually an option with the 280).