I´ve been flying for over a quarter century and was trained to use paper charts and the magnetic compass. These were the days when the TMA´s around were not even half as large as they are today, and usually in pretty remote areas. We even flew off the chart into our neighboring country...
Nowadays I am a strong supporter of using digital charts and a navigation app like Sky Demon or similar. Frankly speaking, I believe anybody flying in unfamiliar areas with complex airspace and deliberately not using any (cheap) sort of moving map is acting foolishly. I´ve had more than one guy call me after landing after busting our TMA.
I still practice using paper charts sometimes for the fun of it, but I do so in rather remote areas. Also, I only carry the Airmillion chart as (fourth) backup, not the 1:500.000 anymore.