How can one expect long haul pilots to be proficient in hand flying or have enough experience to base their decisions on, when most of them barely have one or two take-offs and landings per month? Also; one is perhaps at the end of a long and boring flight, maybe jet lagged as well, and suddenly has to jump right in to the full alert mode.
"It was the loss of stabilised flight in the flare and the subsequent lack of correct retardation procedures, which led to the deep landing and overrun"
Too many empty, zero-experience-building flight hours in a way too automated aircraft. Long haul ops takes you from pilot to manager in no-time, that is the problem.
To answer the initial question: pilots need to pilot every so often. This is not the pilotsī"fault". Itīs just what can be expected when they never get to do any real flying...