No, I think the answer is a mixture of both - train them to use the autopilot properly and monitor it diligently but ensure that sufficient hand-flying skills are practised and retained so that the ability is there to take over if the AP biffs it.
There is train hard fight easy and there is doing the enemy's job for them by taking training too far - I know some would advocate manually flying (cyclic and collective) our SAR transition profiles but that goes against what the automatics are there for - to make things safer in the DVE.
We don't have to be able to do the APs job for it, just recover to a safe flying condition when it gets it wrong.