Are you on the 'Hendon List' as well?
Driving aids are just that, not a replacement for driver attention and driving appropriately - as it says in the online or paper manuals for vehicles with 'assistive technology'.
Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it - as many drivers choose not to.
In my case, it's a technical exercise rather than a need / want.
Bemoaning the relentless progress of technology and your opinion of it's effects on driving skills, or the loss of them probably won't have any effect other than making you feel better - mainly due to the site demographics being skewed to the older, less equipped vehicles and their keepers.
I have noticed that comments and opinions along the line of yours seem to appear often when new members ask questions about newer vehicles and their technology - possibly part of the reason they don't hang around?
Possibly, it is 'more to go wrong' - but here's the thing, there are less issues with newer tech given the density of it compared to older vehicles with a single number of addressable systems. L405's have up to 129 addressable systems, many work transparently and faultlessly, some do so but have programming issues or unintended consequences - not 'something going wrong' but the implementation didn't fully foresee certain usage cases, often easily fixed in software (after the inevitable testing delays), a case in point is early L319's throwing a restricted performance error when left-foot braking whilst still applying throttle input, something that was never fixed on L322's but was a simple calibration update on L319.
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