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413X3 :
You take the words out of my mouth !
This glorification of the past seems to be ingrained in human nature.
As in most other cases also in this case reality rather implies the opposite.
Yes the manual hand flying skills probably have degraded to some extent. But the safety of the overall system : Plane - Pilot - Airport Equipment is so much better than it was in the good old days.
And even the distribution of the accident causes hasn't changed that much since the days of the propliners.