Auto, that ain't necessarily so. There are a number of helicopters with full autopilot & flight director, & you just sit & watch it. I've flown a number of them.
I've been watching this thread, & just don't understand it. A pilot is a pilot. If (s)he has the required ratings, then I don't see a problem with flying any aircraft for which the rating applies. I have a fixed-wing license and a helicopter license, but I consider myself a helicopter pilot because that's what I get paid to fly. I'm also a fixed-wing pilot, and I don't think any fixed-wing drivers would bitch that much if I flew a seized-wing, as long as I had the ratings. No way any sane, competent chief pilot is going to put me in the left seat of a Gulfstream, though, even with the hours I have, because my Gulfstream time is exactly zero. And no way a sane, competent chief pilot is going to put a Gulfstream pilot with multi-thousands of hours in command of a Sikorsky when his Sikorsky hours is zero, or even likely in the hundreds. So why this argument in the first place?