Most CFIT were accomplished with the FD spot on. Automatics don't fix everything.
But this is not the issue. The issue is that too many at EK get sweaty hands if
you take away FD/AP/FMS over the airport at 5000ft and tell them to go and land.
Watching some fly into SEZ rwy13 with CB's in Jepp's way is scarey and revealing.
Such policies have been among the early signs of upcoming big one's, just as the
JNB incident. It unveals the incompetence of selection and training or their
complacency facing the cost cutting mania leading to dismanteling the bearly
acceptable standard that has once been established.
Just wait for the procedures on the A380: 20 miles final, fully configured on
final approach speed, only autoland and autobrake, max taxispeed 10kts. The FO
will definitely remain just to fill out the voyage report ....