Nice try to stir up the nest but we are bigger boys than you think!
I have lost count of the number of times I have personally flown manually below 10,000 aal this year alone both on arrival and departure. There is a time and a place for manual flying as with any type of operation. When it's suitable then I will make the most of it.
Most of my colleagues will have no idea about the Manx 2 crash in 2011, unless you are from the UK. I fail to see how a diversion in a A380 has any correlation to an accident in a turboprop, that was due to a loss of control while performing a go around that was executed below minima.
Anyway - back to the topic in hand....