I have to agree there, it is not about the plane and the automatics that come with it. It is more a question about attitude towards your job and flying in general. And quite often it is a big question about the attitude of management pilots who define how the planes have to be operated in a certain company.
In the outfit i flew in for the last 8 years it was encouraged to do raw data no-automatic approaches and departures and raw data manual flying was part of every SIM exercise, including of course raw data manual one engine out flying. Of course you could spot the difference between those that often switched it off and those that did not. Never had a problem there, but then i started flying at the age of 12 in glider planes.