Yawn.
What an utterly, utterly cliched, blinkered, patronising and offensive view of others. Has it not occurred to you that there are a significant number of pilots out there who have perfectly adequate basic raw flying skills bred from varied backgrounds? However, rather than sit in an ivory tower of self-admiration of their basic handling skills, these systems are switched on, manipulated and understood by many more pilots than you give credit for. You may consider this a "dull" approach to flying, but personally I don't haul fare paying passengers around for an opportunity to show off how fantastic my basic poling skills are.
I hold a professional colleague in just as much high regard as a pilot for knowing the do's and don'ts of his company Part A book as I do for his good standard of automatic OR manual flying. We work in a rule based industry. I'd rather go to work with a compliant, average Joe pilot than a maverick out for the day to show off (without my invitation) how he can cope without automatic assistance. Leave that for the recurrent training environment.