I agree, and yet disagree with all of this, these "modern airplanes" are designed to be "flown" (operated) at the highest level of automation as is consistent with the phase of flight, to be monitored and managed.....however when the wheels come off, then the workload is increased exponentially....so while the regulators are finger pointing at the pilots, they also should be looking at aircraft design and redundancy....it amazes me the long list of inop systems that arise on the status page after what should be relatively benign failure....these didn't use to affect the aircraft handling, but now.....????
