As an IRE I have watched on countless occasions in the simulator, experienced Boeing captains attempting to fly an ILS in a 15 knot crosswind on raw data hand flying. No AP, FD or AT. The majority fail an instrument rating because they seems helpless in their instrument scan under these conditions.
On the other hand, allow them to conduct a coupled approach and they do a wonderful job of "monitoring" and the aircraft (not the pilot) flies to instrument rating limits. Would I be confident to have my family down the back on a dark and stormy ILS night with one of these automation dependant captains flying? No, I wouldn't.
Because if for some technical reason the automatics played up or were inadvertently wrongly programmed (and who hasn't done that on occasions?) then from what I have personally seen, these characters could not safely cope with basic manual instrument flying. And that is what concerns me with the headlong rush for still more automation.