"Dependence on automation is a worldwide problem in commercial passenger aviation. No nationality or race is exempt."
Yes, the point is that most of the new guys learn to fly in a small cessna up to 200hrs then they jump into the RH seat of a 777, landing once a month after a fully automated approach, A/P goes OFF at 500ft and your job is just to flare to avoid an hard landing!
Take a Cpt that has started his career as cadet in the X Airline on a shiny modern widebody, assuming that after 11 years he has 10.000hrs (900hrs/year) and, if he is lucky, he can land 3 times a month (very lucky) always using full automation...it means 10.000hrs=396 landings...and how many of that are on Visual Approach or manual flight???
In US or Europe usually you start your career flying a small/medium jet then, once senior FO, jump on a widebody RH seat, for your command training you will comeback on a small plane and at the end of your career maybe you will get the chance to fly the big jet as a Captain.
I think this should be the way, the training, the experience and the old school.