This is actually really great stuff.
You have to see past the "Anyone can fly now" hyperbole. Certainly no regulatory body in any country is going to let "anyone" fly. Pilots will remain highly trained, highly skilled, and in demand. Rules, reg's, airspace, navigation, weather, etc., etc. None of that stuff goes away.
You also have to look past the unfortunate use of the iPad in the demo. Although it clearly shows that the required processing power is trivial to obtain, and equally inexpensive, it does give it kind of an amateurish gloss. Skyryse has said in their press releases that any production capability will be on fully certified hardware and software.
Perhaps more importantly, this isn't really anything new. How many jet aircraft are flown nearly exclusively by twisting knobs and pushing buttons every day? The same level of autopilot and SAS automation exists in more sophisticated helicopters as well.
All Skyryse is doing is taking existing technology to the next level, and that next level isn't much more than a small step up. It's just a full commitment to fly-by-wire, always staying in the "higher modes", and a fresh look at the user interface.
We've already seen how the continuous improvement in size, weight, power and, most important, cost, of technology allows capability once found only in the most sophisticated aircraft to arrive in the cockpits of Cessna 172's and R44's. Ten years ago, who would have believed you'd see the likes of the HeliSAS system in the R44 cockpit for only $40K?
This is going to be the future of aviation. It's not going to make highly trained pilots obsolete, that's just marketing hype designed to pander to potential investors. But pilots are going to have to buy into the automation. It will require a major shift in thinking. Imagine if helicopter accidents were reduced by 90% across the board. No settling with power. No overpitching. No CFIT. Inadvertent IMC becomes an embarrassment but not deadly. Every auto perfect (and Skyrise claims their system can do this). That leaves say 9% due to the inevitable bad weather decisions, unsuitable surfaces and other things that will forever remain pilot-induced.
But that brings us to that last 1%. The 1% due to failures of the technology. That is the crux of the issue. One has to be able to accept this 1% in order to achieve the gains, one hopes large gains, in the other areas. Of course we can argue about whether that number is 1%, 2% or whatever. But it should be pretty small relative to the other potential causes of accidents that such a system would largely prevent.