Funny, 'cos my experience of the posters on here is that there are automation fans and stick-and-rudder folk flying both manufacturer's aircraft. It's true that some pilots prefer the less cluttered AB flight deck arrangement and choose to fly AB as a result and others who prefer the denser, more hands on B design, but to say that the former are automation junkies (and indirectly knocking their stick and rudder skills as a result), or that the latter are more hands-on stick-and-rudder guys (and possibly implying an old-fashioned mindset in the process) is a gross overgeneralisation and a disservice to pilots of both.
Case in point, one of the most stalwart of the old guard on here (to the extent that he sometimes rubs people the wrong way) was flying the most technologically advanced aircraft of his generation and still has a great affection for it to this day. I bet he'd have something to say if you reckoned he was an automation junkie.