Anytime someone brings up this question or the "you just push the take off and landing buttons" point, I ask a simple question: do we keep firefighters around to make five alarm chili? No, we keep them around to handle emergencies.

When a failure occurs, a computer will run a checklist and stop when it gets to the end. It doesn't care if the problem is solved, it has done it's job and goes idle. Humans, on the other hand, will keep fighting to correct the issue or at least mitigate the failure until they hit the ground.

Oh, and about the "one stall a day" comment. Does that include entering an area of unforecast and unreported turbulence strong enough to at least momentarily induce a shaker? Does it account for aircraft that rotated just before a windshear/microburst warning is issued?