Dependence on automation is a worldwide problem in commercial passenger aviation
No, it is not a problem. It is an accepted fact. It's all about cost reduction for higher returns and cheaper tickets and each and every remedy to the above fact is instantly rejected if it implies more cost. No one in the driver seats is interested in a solution. The companies want to pay less for pilots, the industry complies with ever more automated jets and the slogans that anything that has a heartbeat can fly it, the regulators are in a tight grip by the politicians that install them, so they blabber whatever being told, the politicians are in a tight grip by the industry that pays them, the media love scoops and airline disasters provide them, the grand public is lured to believe that all of the above defend their interest and they just loooove the cheap tickets.
Nothing is going to happen, no one is pointing at the huge white Elephant in the room. They will all try to pull nice curtains around it, to build a remote little annex room to hide it, install nice little gadgets that helps it eat, drink and take a dump. That's all way cheaper than to train it to be able to live in the real jungle.
Modern pilots depend on automation, we have to accept the fact. They lack the basic training and basic experience the earlier generation had to go through. The industry needs cheap pilots now, so it generates the children of the magenta. Unfortunately the airplanes and the airports are not completely redundant and their automation is far from fool-proof. Evidently a pilot is still needed to fill the eventual gaps. That's the theory. Most of the new pilots can produce such gap-filling to a minimal degree in the sim, were tha program is know in advance and the trainers are from the new breed as well, so they pass even abysmal performances because that's about what they know.
Until the industry can come up with a almost perfect automated solution we have to accept such real life performances we see recently and it's cynicism. It's the calculated risk of todays world!
We can stop inquiring about the hows and whys, everyone knows what's going on, if we are absolutely honest.