TTex, whilst acknowledging the excellence in your views, they only represent the differences from established norms. This might assume that these norms are the ideal.
These norms could have evolved with previous technology developments, and there may be many retrospective examples of where the ‘ideals’ did not exist (good or bad).
The point being, is that the concept of an ideal is in part ‘in the eye of the beholder’, which will probably be related to the task.
Thus, we may be attempting to use modern technology for a task and with techniques (including training) which are inappropriate. It is not that these aspects or the technology are wrong, they are different.
I’m not seeking a right or wrong view, but a balance in that if the aviating task were to be reconsidered then the design may be perfectly adequate, but this would require a different approach to training and operating.
I hope that there is a half-way position in these views because the technology already exists. Thus the training and operations, the mindset, has to adapt to what we have. And for this perhaps we should look at what goes right in operations, how the human adapts or not, and from those aspects seek more focused improvements.