Aerospace 101:
I have never read so much crap for years. I can only assume that you have very little experience in aviation.
I have been training now for over 40 years and I love the ex-FR pilots. They can do non-precision approaches and circling approaches up the ying yang and are generally much better at hand-flying than most.
I can think of more than one flag carrier that would consider an NDB to be an emergency!