The big advantage of flight automation is the savings in training and continual practice. There will be a time where a basic helicopter course followed by a Flight Management Systems course will enable one to be qualified to fly, sorry, operate helicopters on the North Sea. Then as individual costs go down then there will be glut of pilots available. The costs will then be reduced yet again because they can be offered peanuts for salaries as they are only automated bus drivers.
Until something that the pundits haven't dreamed up in the checklist happens.