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Are you saying that automation contributed to the Asiana 214 crash??? It sure looks like an automated landing would have prevented the crash.
Quite the reverse: the automatics may have been masking a threat in the system. For that particular approach the outcome may have been better if a higher level of automation had been used but that does not address the fact that there was a crew (and still undoubtedly are still crews) out there who given the wrong set of circumstances could not (and cannot) safely guide a serviceable aircraft to a runway in benign meteorological conditions.
The reality is that airlines are best served by having well rounded individuals in the flight deck and a key part of the necessary skill set is piloting skill. Piloting skill is not acquired and maintained by watching screens with one's hands sitting idly on one's knees.