A lot of you are missing the essential point; a few minutes of hand-flying a departure or arrival isn't going to solve this problem!
Agreed. However hand flying to 10,000 on a SID using raw data is a good start. Same with descent. No one ever suggested hand flying for ten hours.
Many years ago I was chided by the chief pilot of a German IT charter airline using 737's for daring to hand fly departures and arrivals. The reason he gave was the first officers were not trained to monitor hand flying by the captain - they were only trained to monitor the automatic pilot.
That was 20 years ago and nothing has changed. Blind reliance on the marvels of automation inevitably makes some pilots lazy and complacent.