Is it true that Eddie Rickenbakker - when running Eastern Airlines - initially refused to buy the new-fangled auto-pilots, " you guys are pilots, you're paid to fly, so fly " and only relented when he realised that he could save money by flying more precise tracks and altitudes - money talked.
Personally, I found it harder to ensure that I had correctly programmed, and then monitored, an auto-coupled approach and auto-land, than to just disconnect and fly the thing - but then Bill Gates had yet to invent Flight Sim. - so beloved by the modern generation.
Horses for Courses, I guess.