F16 ... you clearly don't know the airline world (anymore or yet).
In the airline pilots didn't know how to fly planes back in the days of "Children of the Magenta" video (1997). And in those days cross-checking, AoA and power, "aviate-navigate-comm" was still in the back of their heads.
Today pilots don't even know what they don't know.
They really don't fly planes that's for for sure and that is because they have never been trained to fly planes, till the point a level-off can be a very challenging maneuvers with all the automation engaged.
And what the airline managements are doing about it? Micromanaged with overdose of NOP. This is proven to create task saturation and general confusion.
They think they can fly the plane seated in the office. They will pretty soon but not yet. They have not solve the morale/social dilemma of a passengers plane without pilots!