I may be the only professional pilot here thinking this, but personally, I'm very glad there are very few (if any?) pilots like you left in the airlines.
The very last person I want to be sitting next to is some astronaut, who thinks he's still in a single engined, single seat fighter!
This job is a TWO pilot operation! Both need to know EXACTLY what's coming next. Keep it SOP. Keep it simple.
Frankly, the industry can't sustain the rates of losses the 'old and bold' generation accepted. We may have different problems now, but flying is infinitely safer, for a very good reason, and it's not purely because aircraft are more reliable!
Though even I'm of an age when I'm seduced by the idea that 'the older I get, the better I was'!