Sooner or later the insurance actuaries will have a case that the accident rate is lower if you eliminate manual flight altogrther. There will be a slight risk but it will be judged to be outweighed by the advantages.
I wonder who will tell the passenger's families that the deaths of their loved ones were as a result of the 'safest option' being not to allow the pilots to actually practise their skills and that regretfully, the automatics just weren't up to it on the day. I mean things like the QF32 engine failure NEVER happen do they. Oh, wait....
