vilas, interesting points, #114.
The revised question is challenging. It could be divided further; what standard of training is required to fly (operate) an aircraft in normal circumstances, and then in abnormal situations which generally involve manual flight, but not always in a normal aircraft.
This thread, like many others degrade to hardened extremes; fixed solutions without first reconsidering assumptions, alternatives - the essence of critical thinking. There may not be any one solution, only middle-ground compromise, small improvements in many areas; all requiring the skill of thinking.
Modern aviation suffers the worldly effects of modern education, instant access solutions, unverified web answers, even electronic training - yes no answers.
Pilots still need the skill of thinking, judgement of risk, managing uncertainty, all refreshed every flight. Yet we appear to be happy to let the autos do that (auto dependency), without realising that autos do not think.
KP, the latter part of your post #117 provides the answer to your original question. If you are unable to fly raw data without assistance - modified displays, then you are automation dependent, whether this is encouraged or not.