Here I go again:
Making comments and getting in trouble.
Sooo here are my thoughts on this matter.
When I learned to fly we had to know morse code to get our instrument rating. I flew just to many years in the High Arctic using the Astro compass for celestial navagation and the rest of the time dead reckoning with some map reading in the areas that were actually mapped.
I now have morphed to the state that I use all the modern aids, you know like Loran, GPS to name two.
I do this becaues of two compelling reasons. They are far more accurate and far more reliable than old technology.
And it is safer navigating with the best equipment availiable.
When I started training in the A320 it never occured to me to ask them why there was no Astro compass in the thing.
Cat Driver