Old Fella, I agree that the generally accepted way to be a pilot includes thoughtful contemplation and due caution. That is not the point. What is the point is that humans are fallible, and it is a worthy pursuit to try to eliminate as many ways of making dumb mistakes as possible.
The industry has moved so very far from where we were forty years ago. At every step of the way there was a naysayer decrying the need for GPWS, EGPWS, enhanced radar, windshear warning, HGS, RNP, GPS, EFIS (for crying out loud) etc etc. What is left is sweeping up the remaining crumbs of ergonomic improvements.
The fact that there have been more than one 737 inadvertent rudder trim command incidents indicates that there is room for improvement in either the aircraft or the operator.