I understand the "we're not learning how to build it" line of thought against extraneous detail. But if pilots are denied basic info like "what do my flight controls do," that's off the other end of the scale.
Challenge me to come up with why I find it important to know I have auto sync? I admit I really can't say - it does the thing without my involvement, whether I know about it or not, whether I care about it or not. But even besides that, somehow it feels -- more basic than that.