you would be unpleasantly surprised at the astonished looks of dismay sometimes seen when in the simulator both CDU's are failed and the crew are asked to find their way procedurely to the airport ILS from 50 miles out, hand flying raw data and no radar vectors.
Stick and rudder skills are obviously important, as is spatial awareness.
The issue with this incident however, isn't the lack of stick and rudder skills, but the lack of awareness of engaged autoflight modes and the inability to use and monitor them correctly.