I do acknowledge that there is a push by the airlines industry wide to encourage the maximum use of automation..........
I do believe the Airlines Training departments should be dedicating more time in the Simulator to maintain and hone basic flying skills.
Not sure about other carriers, but the training department of my mob have recently made it plain that future training will involve a lot more manual flying as a result of trends being identified in incidents worldwide over the last few years.
That, combined with a greater emphasise on
training scenarios in the simulator should go some way toward improving our manual manipulation skills -especially for those of us who do very few sectors (not by choice I'll add).