I'm afraid it's happened to every industry. It's called maturing. The first few people are pioneers, who succeed on luck as much judgement. That doesn't last, and eventually professional standards take hold, and the old guard moan that it was more fun when the odd ****up (even if fatal) was a risk it was acceptable to take.
If modern professional standards equates to monitoring automatics until such a time when the automatics give up, leaving two out-of-the-loop beating hearts to question what is wrong and fix it before landfall ... I prefer the sky gods, thank you.