IMO weak pilots flock to automation. Everyone needs to use it as appropriate. Sometimes it's not the answer but IMO the weaker guys are often slower to revert to manual flying. Instead they continue struggling with the automation when 10, 20, or 30 seconds of manual flying would stabilize the situation/automation confusion and allow resetting the automation to an appropriate mode. Instead they hesitate in the 'what's it doing now?' phase unsure of the automation and themselves.

And the flip side is they sometimes revert to manual flying, thereby increasing their workload, when there's a simple correction available with the automation.