Can't agree. I would argue this was still the case of rather chronic automation dependency
My point was this wasn't a simple case of a whiz-kid "child of the magenta" being unable to hand fly the plane when faced with an outright automation failure.
Rather, he didn't understand the automation behavior. Had he been a stick-and-rudder guru, he could have still crashed by not understanding that.
The A320 pilot at the Habsheim crash was a highly experienced test pilot with excellent hand flying skills. Yet a misunderstanding about automation combined with poor decision making caused a crash.
Likewise, further improving the hand flying skills of the Asiana pilot -- by itself -- might not have prevented the problem if he *still* misunderstood aspects of the automation. This implies the overall problem and solution is broader than automation dependency.