Most aircraft are designed to be flow by idiots.
Hard part is when Schiff goes wrong.
That what we pay the pilots for.
Full disclosure; I’m a Former Boeing engineer
Experimental flight test.
It is amazing nowadays that modern big jets can basically take off, fly and land themselves.
My dad was a Boeing Electrical/Ordinance engineer for Boeing, '49-'79.
One summer he took me, a 16 year old with 5 other engineers to White Sands, NM to design, construct and explode ordinance under an Air Force contract.
Watching stuff explode from a bunker was too cool for a teenager.