Not only does this report highlight the critical need for some hands on instrument time
Several decades ago the only time a pilot could legally log instrument flight time was in IMC without the automatic pilot. In other words real hands on instrument flying. Employers would closely scrutinize a pilots instrument flying hours to determine a candidates real experience. Mind you, it was not hard to cheat and log the hours in clear air and it could not be easily proved otherwise. Experienced chief pilots could usually twig though.
Nowadays, it is legal to log all IMC flight on automatic pilot as instrument flight time. What is the point of that since it is worthless in real terms?
Thus one now sees pilots with thousands of hours purported instrument flight time in their log books which is not worth a pinch of salt since the pilot is monitoring - not actually hands on flying on instruments. No wonder there are prangs due to incompetent instrument flying.
ICAO rules introduced many years ago, by permitting autopilot IMC time to be logged, immeasurably dumbed down the original concept of logging of instrument flight time as a measure of a pilots true instrument flying experience.