RAT5 : Excellent post , fully agree. The same tendency is going on in ATC right now, where complexities and incoherences in the advanced automated systems are mitigated by more automation , leaving the controller further away from understanding what the system is doing. I we combine this with the new young generation which was born with a Nitendo next to the feeding bottle , the results are decrease of situation awareness, repetitive tasks to feed the machine, erosion of basic control skills and very, very poor decision making in abnormal situations and/or when automation fails.