Don't put all discussion around flying into one basket!
There are pilots and airmen flying airplanes.
There are airliner's and automats air-transporting SLF from A to B.
The future may be more automated flying cattle paddock or stapled coffins, as discussed lately.
The art and joy of flying is in the first, not in the two others.
That is why pilots and airmen don't like the other two option.