I don't know if that's right Tourist. I and the majority of people I know have been trained in exactly the same aircraft following exactly the same syllabus for more than 30 years, flying, stalling in Cessna's and Pipers. The MPL licence has yet to materialize fully, so training cannot be the reason for the problem you see.
Now the only thing that has changed operationally is the fact that we have SATNAV. The rest is exactly the same as 30 years ago. So yes we follow magenta lines, and we are not endlessly dialling up VOR's. But let's be honest, was that really rocket science? Hard work, yes.
And automation? My own opinion is that I have had to invest by far more brain cells in undestanding my A320 aircraft than the 737 tractor I used to fly. Go figure.