It is hardly de-skilling the profession to train controllers more thoroughly in data display management, looking at the data display first to determine a clearance, applying an appropriate mixture of procedural and radar separation, recognising when procedural separation exists, perhaps accidentally, and therefore not worrying about the application of ensuring radar separation, and finally - still shifting traffic, albeit an a limited rate, when the fail-safe radar goes tits up.
I can, perhaps, understand the current situation in the ACC context but in Approach Control it has just been a cop-out for the benefit of the "bottom line".
PS How do you check that your navaids are coding correctly if you don't know Morse Code?