If the pilot does not have the skills to hand fly the plane, no autopilot will make up for it. IOW, if you can't fly it, don't take it airborne. The A/P is an aid, not a substitute.
Tell that to the Asiana jocks that crashed a perfectly serviceable aircraft short of the rwy in SFO.
This happens to aircrew everywhere. 100 or 10,000 hours, people don't seem to get it.