One said that "Pilots...sad to say...do not add value" or something like that...
I have to disagree...nowadays everyone takes flight safety for granted...but wait for the first disaster related to questionnable competence of a crew or exhausted pilots (or any combination of the two, as for colgan air) and all of a sudden, the public and the regulator will step in and the added value of a good crew will all of a sudden become apparent...once again...