Automation is nice on a perfect day if you want to auto land but what about the day you touch down on an icy or slick runway and say one reverser doesn't work? How about if both reversers work but the crosswind has you cocked into the wind but sliding off the downwind edge of the runway with the reversers in full reverse but you have plenty of runway left? Does the automation know to reduce reverse to stay on the runway and even with a bit of pilot skill use the differential reverse to help get you straight again? All the Boeings I flew, on auto land, the pilot controlled the reversers but can't imagine letting the auto land control everything else while you only managed the reversers on a situation like that. You certainly have little time to monitor annunciators about deceleration, etc. I know this has little to do with this accident, just how monitoring automation takes you out of the loop.