HeliComparator ..... told you a million times not to exaggerate.
People are not deliberately going out in poor weather and flying manually / by hand ..... unless of course you are not equipped with flight director or equivalent when they have no choice (some S76A++ etc) ...... but that is the crux of the matter - people are noticing a degradation of the scan and skills learned in those types when nowadays they continually fly coupled from gear up or whatever until gear down etc .....
So they will usually fly a departure profile till established and bored in the cruise ..... then those slightly braver might also attempt an IFR recovery probably onshore - simply to hone those skills in danger of being lost. Not a drama, surely?
Most operators have deemed you should be fully coupled (though some are not capable of being fully coupled) for most ops following certain incidents/accidents and thus training / recency is also now encouraged ...... quite removed from the days of 332L's being flown AP's off for all the flight back from distant platforms.