While I fully appreciate the discussion whether automatics are good or bad or both, and I can understand some people's concern about pilots loosing pilot's skills, I must say that this AD has nothing to do with it!
If you read the AD carefully (and if we are talking about the same one, namely the one HazelNuts39 presented us), it's not about automation but about correct failure finding in case of one or several Air Data failures. This can happen in any aircraft, even in steam-driven cockpits. Needless to say, that in most multiple AD failures, the autopilot disconnects by itself. The problem pilot's routinely have with such type of failures in the cockpit is not the lack of manual skills, but the wrong way of identifying the correct AD source or the insufficient use of pitch and power.
Modern cockpit have even more advantages than older ones, i.e. they offer more independent sources to troubleshoot (e.g. GS indication from FMS).