Automation, in modern glass cockpit aircraft, is dutifully dumb: tell the airplane to fly to Point X with a mountain between the airplane and Point X and it will, very accurately, impact with said mountain (Cali).
Sit back and watch the thrust levers come back to idle thrust and, with the autopilot engaged ( and no Alpha Floor protection), it will fly a textbook full stall manoeuvre.
We are in danger of losing sight of the big picture: the "Playstation" generation are now sitting in the right seat, and the left seat, of modern commercial aircraft: "what's it doing now" is becoming more common.
Aviate, navigate, communicate...stick to the basics.
A 737 / A320 is a glorified C150 and you can always go back to basics.