"Are there pilots that follow the flight director blindly? Didn't happen when I was flying"
Sorry to follow my own quote but when did pilots not become pilots but follow the magenta line?
I always looked at the flight director but sometimes it gets programmed wrong as in one of my previous posts when my check airman got it so screwed up I just ignored it and flew my flight plan. He eventually caught up. No you do not follow the flight director blindly. You verify everything it is doing. To just follow it with no verification makes you not a real pilot, soory.