The problem is some of us only fly around highly congested Europe with its equally congested airports. Would you suggest hand flying from Chicago to JFK ? It may be o.k if itīs your backyard, but I for one have to work hard on any stateside trip with the adherence to U.S standard r/t along with U.S controlling (not worse just different). Also I gather that virtually no U.S airline runs any type of SESMA or event monitoring system in the flight deck, so we have to be overlly careful when accepting U.S style visual approaches. Basically, itīs safer for my career to keep the autopilot in.....