HC, I haven't referred to "manual flying skills", my comments were about "basic" skills and "basic" flying skills which (to me) incorporate the essentials of good decision making and a sound understanding of the aircraft that you are flying.
I'd also suggest that your overuse of deliberate insults about manualflightfascists could equally be used against you as an automatedflightfascist, and would be just as meaningless. Neither dogma adds to the debate, simply showing a base level of poor discussion skills.