with all due respects, when the automatics are mishandled or go bollocks, I would not trust modern age pilots to handle any phase of flight manually.
Decades ago a/c had to be flown, experience was needed and average pilots were easy to spot, Today how can you sort out an inadequate pilot from an average one ? The training may have a bearing, but there are pilots who simply should not be sitting in a cockpit, they lack the basics and fear manual flying.
Fear which leads to panic, is the leprosy of aviation.
It is at the origin of so many accidents. Aviation has never been so safe thanks to computers, but does that justify loss of life due to mishandling of perfectly recoverable situations degenerating into disasters due to incompetence or lack of training of crews ?
This is a matter which will never be resolved, let's live with it...I fly the airlines twice a month, and wish nothing will ever go wrong, because if it does, it will be a lottery...