My suggestion might just start the ball rolling and get us all thinking towards the mindset of flying manually - especially if it were a requirement of the XAA.
Agreed, now I'll post the following as long as some people don't accuse me of being...well, a certain word.
I try to grab manual flying as much as I can. As a result of a previous discussion for a while I have indeed logged manual ILS's/appoaches vs. Coupled (inc. autolands)..there, I've admitted it..
FWIW last calendar year, >850 flying hours, Long haul with a handful for "shuttle sectors"...:
Hand flown ILS's 21
Self positioned Visual approaches 2
Coupled ILS/RNAV - 12
So that's a total of 35 approaches in a year for a captain ...for the average P2 on my fleet that's going to be a lower figure due to their heavy crewing requirements.