No Bucks, no Buck Rogers......
The days of CX being a smallish Airline with highly experienced drivers that fly like Chuck Yeager has long gone. We are scraping the bottom of the barrell now days and CX is forced to dumb it down in order to compensate.
The reasons are obvious and you don't need to be a Rocket Scientist ( or Buck Rogers!! ) to see it.
As for no NDB approaches and no Circling?? Good riddance, much safer RNAV's available.
However I do think we should maintain the ability to fly raw data and visual circuits. Aren't the 'N' sim sessions designed to address such areas?