"Cabin crew are there to pick up the pieces when the pilots screw up."
I think you mean pick up a coffee for the captain cause he has just been screwed by the company doing sector after sector and been called in on his day off.
There's a chap now fix me a coffee cabin boy.
Have some respect for your elders that went before us and risked their lives experimenting/testing and creating the very job you wouldn't have without pilots.