About 20 years ago, while based in Boston, I had the mispleasure of speaking with an aeronautics professor at MIT (massachusetts institutue of technology). He occupied the boeing chair in aeronautics. In other words, great academic credentials.
He explained to me that the airliners of the near future wouldn't require skilled pilots and that someone with 250 hours could easily handle the command duties of planes the size of 747s.
Of course I argued, citing the example we all use. What happens when all the nice electronic gadgets quit or some other failure occurs.
he just cited the numbers on such failures and pronounced them acceptable.
I do hope that the modern pilot takes it upon himself to become an excellent ''old style'' pilot while working with the modern technology. He may never need the excellence, but it is a nice reserve.