I suspect the Viscount was the first aircraft with autofeather. I saw lots of folks in the sim lose an engine and just keep on flying without doing much of anything.
Unless the engine was on fire, a restart would be attempted at height.
The pistons needed to be feathered manually to have a chance of climbing which put the emphasis on fast hands, but they came with an FE who often caught a sagging engine before it got seriously sick.
Too many CAAs still want to see fast hands. Maybe it's still needed for those piston twins still out there, but definitely not for turboprops with working autofeather and a 50/50 chance of ending up with no engines producing power
