Tee Emm -
Thank you for your post.
You are so right, and you're right; it's so sad. I've never been happier to be away from something (even my 'ex') in my life!
It seems many today are unwilling to except the fact that they might be called upon to exercise actual flying skills some day to save their airplane. I had to do exactly that on a training flight one night with a "Captain/Instructor" in the Left Seat. He did NOT know how to get out of the situation we were in, and I was transitioning into my first jet aircraft! I'm glad I was able to call upon basic flying skills to not have my family and friends read about it in an accident report.
Unfortunately, as I've spreculated in the past; it's only a matter of time before drones will be carrying the people around the World anyway, so why bother teaching pilots anything?