To reduce the shipborne training burden could the routine deck-landing of F-35C be left to automation?
If manual deck-landings were regarded as a reversionary mode then perhaps line pilots would then only practice them in a simulator, with a recurrent dual-check from a small cadre of instructors qualified in live deck-landings.
Pilots are going to have get used to the idea of automatic ejection on the F-35B so perhaps reliance on automatic landings doesn't seem so radical.