So let's use all our resources, both automatic and human, and try to ensure we keep both in tip-top condition!
I hate to say this but automation dependency is here to stay particularly when cadets with barely 250 hours are employed as second in command on transport jets and brain-washed into full automation from the very first simulator trip. .
Fine, if the airlines want to continue that way but at least give pilots a chance to gain manual flying skills (including no autothrottle and no flight director) by ensuring that 50 percent of each simulator session is raw data manual flight. Not 90 percent automatics as it is now.