Some airlines acknowledge the erosion of basic flying skills and lack of situation awareness of the simulator-trained generation. Look at the example of the unfortunate Air France A330 out of Rio, where there was a complete loss of the picture by everyone on the flightdeck.
The successful resolution of QF32 A380 out of Singapore is also a good example. After catastrophic uncontained #2 engine failure, which then progressively took out most systems, the captain (aided by several check captains who were on board and helped analyse the emergency captions) relied on his basic military flying skills and awareness to attempt diagnosing what systems remained and successfully getting it back on the ground.