d246:
I rather prefer sitting in an acft with a pilot in front who has extremely good hand flying skills and is perfectly able to execute a visual approach when landing e.g. in Greece where most airports have non-precision approaches, terrain, and heavy crosswinds + ws.
Moreover, most autopilots have difficulties at crosswinds exceeding 10kts.
And as a computer scientist let me tell you something about the way those things are implemented in FMCs. Once you have the specification what the system should do, there are very safe ways to implement it and function accordingly to the system specification. However, who tells you that the specification is correct and covers all eventualities, only God can. The Lufthansa Warsaw rwy overrun is a "classic" for bad system specification because the stupid computer did not let the pilots use the entire breaking power available.