Amazing how ppruners can work themselves up into a frenzy about very little (muppets/morons etc.). Nobody is arguing that one size fits all. For instance if you only do a couple of landings a month and in places like Australia then mandating everyone who is auto land qualified must do practice auto lands in the aircraft is hard to justify.
However if you operate short haul in northern europe it is no big deal. If your OM requires it then you do it. That the sim is the only place to practice might also be used as an argument against raw data flying. Most of us would disagree. I think it is self evident that if you only do auto lands in the sim (in the worst case three approaches twice a year) to be legal, then you are going to be much less familiar and when things go wrong as in this case arguably less able to cope.
Lets share information that makes us all better pilots and try and cut down on the judgmental point scoring stuff (says he being judgmental but hopefully polite).