You will be surprised how much physical 'hands-on' flying you sometimes have to do in modern 'computer' airplanes. I remember an approach in gusty winds in an Fokker 100 (auto-everything) into Chicago O'Hare. The winds were so bad that we had to turn the autopilot off and wrestle with the controls to almost exhaustion. Besides all of the cockpit auto gimmicks can fail at any time and you are back to stick and rudder bankin' & yankin'.
P.S. It is more fun to fly computer airplanes, like on a flight simulator on your computer than in real life.