I place the blame for this problem squarely with airline management. My first 16 years of flying were on the Kc1135 and 707 so I got plenty of manual flying while my last 10 years were on the A320. I was lucky to fly for an airline who had the policy of pilots flying manually as much as they needed to maintain their skills. I personally used the autopilot most of the time on the A320, but I had FOs that flew entire flights manually. Also most of my FOs had several thousand hours. I can't imagine operating under the conditions of European and Asian airlines today.