You can scoff if you want. Your prerogative. Kinda like buying stock options....it's the timing of the bet that's important.

20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?

As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.