Why?
JT re post 43, you must ask yourself why the management changed their approach.
Firstly, the new whizz=bang 732ADVs had all this newfangled button stuff. To force people to learn it, hand flying was as near as dammit banned. I can remember using the A/P to fly a circuit to final! That was OK as long as we weren't using the sim and renewals were in the a/c.
But, in the next round of PPC/OPC/IRT, too many people started failing the mandatory handflying bit (OEI ILS with PF doing the button pushing). I did and had a remedial session and so did quite a few others.
So someone somewhere decided on a compromise. And I guess the reason was money.