I guess lack of training never applied to us old guys. We kind of trained ourselves. We couldn't afford a lot of formal training. Our first few thousand hours had no automation so we just took our hands and did what was needed to fly.
When automation became readily available we used it to reduce workload when we felt like it. We didn't really trust it but we used it knowing we could easily disconnect it when it didn't do what we wanted.
Now some airliners want everything done on autopilot because it can fly better than any pilot. Airlines hire young pilots with little experience and they are shown how you don't need to hand fly any more because of automation. Labor is cheap.
Then AF447 shows the world how wrong that was. All that flight needed was one pilot in the cockpit who knew how to handfly but they didn't so everybody died for no reason. And the beat goes on.