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A little Occam's razor:
Automation is simply nowhere near good enough to replace well trained, remunerated, rested and motivated pilots.
That the incessant cost cutting preferred by both airline management and manufacturers alike is flawed.
Ockham might opine: Automation is good enough to replace average, insufficiently-trained, underpaid, overworked and thus no-longer-motivated pilots. The latter seem increasingly to outnumber the former.
Which is why pilots will soon (probably sooner than they expect) go the way of elevator operators. That may be sad in vaguely nostalgic fashion but will decrease seat costs, ticket prices and fatalities per million flights.