It is incumbent upon the industry to remember that flying the plane is the most important thing one can do.
then comes navigation.
(lump in wx radar in the nav area...but you could clean things up by having a voice say: fly heading 220degrees, instead of cluttering up the cockpit with things so big they detract from basic flight instruments)
then comes communication...heck, modern times could have the controllers switch radio frequencies for you and you could forget about that.
But to lessen the importance of the flight instrument...no wonder we have crashes like Asiana.
And yes, the Air Speed Indicator with a pointer and a vref somewhere near the 3 or 4 o'clock position, V2 also is just about right.