Ahh this old chestnut, it's always the same tune with slightly different lyrics, not long ago people decried GPS as going to make a generation of Pilots that don't know how to read Maps, before that I'm sure it was probably the ILS will make a generation of Pilots that don't know how to land, the Jet Engine is far too complex compared to a good old fashioned piston, all these fancy instruments will take away a Pilots ability to feel the aircraft, blah blah blah.
Will new tech take away certain levels of skill proficiency? almost certainly, but the fact remains that no matter what tech, gadgets or whatever your Aircraft has it's the Pilots' ultimate responsibility to fully understand them and more importantly what to do when they don't work as intended. Instead of focusing on which specific skills may no longer be relevant or how it may diminish them and how that somehow makes a Pilot "soft" (honestly, such a laughable word to use in this context) how about focusing instead on making sure that this is still the way we teach Pilot's and ensuring that they all know exactly how their Aircraft work as this is what really counts.