Operators who think they're safety-conscious do. Every individual flight is safer with automation, so to ensure safety what's one to do? Mandate automation, of course!
Buy they are for some reason blind to the safety implication of automation on every flight, where the "pilot" can't maintain his/her skills, or even develop them in the first place.
It's two sides of a coin, and true safety consciousness is based on both of them. Naive safety consciousness is based only on the one representing individual flights. It's an honest mistake.