if there is automation aboard a plane, one has to be able to fly OK if it fails. but there is a new view that if automation fails, the flight crashes.
It's the media write-ups afterwards that go really overboard, about how the pilot (usually singular) managed to land safely after the computer that was supposed to do it all for him had failed. They totally miss the point that if he (or she) can't do that, he shouldn't be sitting there in the first place.