Overall, flying is safer now than in the days of manual control or more simplistic autopilot. The problem seems to me to be that when things do fail, the cause

Overall, flying is safer now than in the days of manual control or more simplistic autopilot. The problem seems to me to be that when things do fail, the cause and effect may not be obvious to the crew so they struggle to understand why the plane is doing what it's doing, and how to correctly respond.