In the " old days " the mantra was " Dead leg ....Dead engine "
Today the mantra for engineers is "reduce the pilots workload"
...which unfortunately also means "reduce the information the pilot receives"
In IMC that might even be a good idea, as pilots may not immediately understand that they have to "kick the ball" since they are so used to have a screen showing the horizon, but not the yaw motion... Also the simulator can not give you the real sensation of the yaw due to an engine failure.
Sometimes the automatics save your day, sometimes they kill you or at least mislead you, so that you kill yourself. There is no easy solution to komplex problems. There are only skilled and well trained people solving problems. The more basic an aircraft behaves, the easier to understand the situation. But sometimes the harder to deal with it.
In the past pilots failed to do the right thing, today they typically fail already to understand the situation.