A lot of threads on this website about 'children of the magenta line' and that they are incapable (supposedly) of flying the aircraft without the automatics.
Yet here we have a thread where very experienced (supposedly) are advocating that you shouldn't fly a visual approach in a wide body in CAVOK conditions?? Sorry, but if you can't fly a visual in any aircraft type in these conditions then you shouldn't be sitting in the flight deck. It does make you wonder when pilots start advocating that you should divert if the ILS goes off air at your destination in CAVOK conditions.
About 50% of the approaches we do on the wide body are NDB or visual. With a proper briefing AND training it all becomes a non-event.