Capitain Kirk
I agree with you. The job has been de-skilled and ever more rigorous SOPs have been substituted for airmanship.
The upside has to be considered too though, does it not?
Flight safety has generally been improving.
maybe in part due to strict adherence to those SOPs
Recent events indicate that, as always, perhaps the pendulum has swung too far.
Now we've great SOP adherents, who rarely fly and believe the SOP will protect them- which it does! ...........until it doesn't.
They then have little else to fall back on.
