Turns out that pilots of these modern airliners are very good managers, and not very good pilots. As the process becomes more and more about managing the machines as they do the flying, the “stick and rudder” instincts of the pilots becomes less and less important... until it becomes suddenly very, very important.
Humans are very good at handling complex situations, but are very poor at monitoring systems over long periods. Unfortunately, the engineers have tried to use computers to handle complex situations and use humans to monitor the computers, the reverse.