Personally, I prefer a hand-flown approach and I do all departures by hand;
Wash your mouth out with soap, Guppy
20 years ago I was invited for tea and bikkies by the chief pilot of a well regarded Boeing 737 German charter operator. A couple of cadet first officers dobbed me for hand flying a SID raw data and other dreadful hand flying sins. They themselves were the product of the system that says manual flying is practically PAN PAN stuff.
The chief pilot was a kindly man and told me gently that his first officers were not trained to "monitor" raw data flying especially if hand flown, and thus were out of their comfort zone. Autopilot monitoring was their forte and would I please desist from being non-standard. By now these cadets would be experienced captains with thousands of hours on automatic pilots. This is now a permanent fact of life in most airlines including the major players such as Qantas, BA and Cathay.