However I preferred the Aussie system where you were looking down at your flight plan most of the time, working out position reports and communicating with ATS every 30 minutes. You hardly had time to look out.
Heaven forbid a pilot should have to use a map and nav log to work out where they were every 30 minutes or so and revise their ETA ... the talking part should have just been a quick report of what you already knew if you were navigating properly, shouldn't it?!