I think that David Learmount is right when he talk about the flying skills of old pilots. New pilots apply procedures instead of "flying", that's the way Airbus told us to use his aircrafts to lower the number of accidents.
This new technology has saved many lifes, but new accidents appears and I think that, by applying procedures only, we just transfer human errors from the pilots to human errors from enginers that create those fully automated aircrafts.
If we want to progress in flight safety, we must mix old flying skills with new flying procedures. CPT Shullenberger proved us it works.