Of course, there is a growing feeling that everything Sikorsky is good and everything Airbus is bad.
It's all horses and roundabouts. In the past S61s were swimming around quite regularly, S76s were throwing rotor blades and Chinooks were either swimming or falling apart in the air.
My opinion with over thirty five years of flying Pumas of different types is that they are trying to stuff too much wine into the bottle.
As far as pilot ability is concerned I was once called a dinosaur on this forum because I said that I used to like to fly the odd sector without the autopilot so as to keep in practice.