Hmm. Most of the guys I know who have formation cards have, at least once in their training 1) fully stalled an airplane to a break, 2) know how to do a chandelle and a lazy eight, 3) can land something with a tail wheel, and 4) can reliably hand fly some sort of a non-precision approach.
I really wouldn’t trust most of the regional jet jocks who learned to “fly” in a Cirrus without ever having to consider the vagaries of power, pitch, and mixture, and who did a commercial in something that was only “complex” by virtue of a glass panel to do the job...
(flame on)