Yes, fully agree here - we must also move with the times, not get caught saying it was better in my day all the time.
Very few if any are saying it was "better in my Day".
Different perhaps but not necessarily "better", in fact I would suggest a careful reading of most comments about "yesterday" really are a commentary on the fact modern Flight Control Systems are very much an improvement over the "old" stuff.
That piloting skills (hands on Monkey Skills) were better was a necessity as in some cases that is all there was to choose from.
With the advent of all this new Gee Whiz Kit where "Hands On" really means mere Button Pushing and Knob Turning then certainly that makes for fertile ground for bad things to grow if the Corn doesn't get Hoe'd to keep the Weeds away.
At least the thinking going on in the old days was being cued by the direct link between the thing manipulating the controls and the indications being used by the Monkey doing the driving.
Now we are one branch or more down the Tree from where that thinking is going on and have to not only see what the deviation is and make a correction but now we have to wait to see the deviation and figure out why it is there to begin with, decide if it is normal or a problem, then not only make the correction but figure out how to stop the interference.
In the old days, if the needles deviated on an ILS, we knew the immediate cause and cure. It was Us and not the AFCS, FMS, or any of the many things that make up the system today.