Anyway. Chasing the Nintendo bars is the easiest way to blindly fly. The FD's have been designed to follow them, for sure. But I have noticed that Nintendo flying worsens my perception about pitch settings. It's not easy to look behind FDs. At least for me. Others may have the ibility to do it. I don't easily. You can do a no-FD departure but not every day. But anyhow I feel that some here think that the deviation is huge, no it's not, it's very small, at least the way I do it.
We are lucky because we are allowed and encouraged to fly no-FD's takeoffs if not RNAV and raw data descents-approaches and I do periodically, as I like too to perform Autolands (versus some of my captains that they look like I am asking to go to the moon) to remain current in the scan, call outs and procedures but I don't think it's enough.