How about training pilots with stick and rudder skills, in the first place ?
Instead of an MPL where they will fly less than 50 real hours (and none or very few on their own ?) airlines could ask ATOs to train their students modular style : 200 hours of vfr flying on an aircraft without any autopilot, EFIS, GPS or any other sophistication, including 100 alone to really get a feel of what it's like being a captain (even on a very small aircraft). Alone faced with a gusty crosswind landing or touch and go on a night vfr flight.
Then 55 hours of IR training without relying too much on the autopilot, the moving map.. Then 15 hours of CPL, VFR, no AP/FD/FMGC/other acronym, and as for the MCC/JOC : handflying operations as well. The precise details of the autoflight system will be learnt and practised every day with paying passengers.
If you never handflied on a small aircraft, are you really gonna start doing it with paying passengers ?