You're all missing the point. Has anyone checked the score board lately?
This is not about economizing pilot salary cost, this is about safety. 60% of all accidents are still pilot induced.
If those can be eliminated, all the better. And the only examples you can dish out for not computer controllable situations are so incredibly rare, that a meritorious service award is handed out, for every one of them!
I love flying (piloting) just as much as those of you defending your jobs so ferociously, but you really have to look at that from a different angle. It will happen that you won't get paid for doing what you like best, sadly I should say.