Funny, RAT 5, I took it to mean that many (most?) of today's pilots just never acquired the manual skills that were standard 30 Yeats ago. One of those skills isn't just manual, hands on; but the ability to mentally draw a picture of where the plane is in space and where it needs to go, how to get it there.
Not demeaning JT's and your excercises, but the ND has taken away the skill of orientation.