Unfortunately, it likely is. I mean many pilots believe you need a DG or compass ensure you stay on the right course heading. This is evident from most of the posters here saying, "stay on heading" or "look at your heading." This demonstrates that with the induction of technologies, in this case DG's, we lose core basics that are far less complex.

To this I ask, why? If your flying a line over the ground, and you have multiple points on the ground, on that line, what is the point?

You only need a DG/Compass to get on the heading. After that, you can never look at them again and fly a perfectly straight line virtually forever. Obviously, I still believe in periodic scans, every 5 minutes or so. But by no means do either of these instruments need to be scanned multiple times a minute.