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Surprise, surprise! It's called BLOATWARE! Loading a machine with stuff you don't need and will never use in the either your lifetime or the expected useful life of the equipment!
Stuff this younger generation loves to add on and is so enamoured with!
My flying started with a inherently stable airframe and a powerplant that we knew the limitations of. Days before GPS, when a map, compass and clock (several, for redundancy) kept us safe and on track.
And my instructors words of wisdom - the best pilot on board is YOU!
Until Artifical Intelligence can do a helluva lot more than just beat a grand master at chess, the ulimate fallback must always be - Pull the plug. Switch it off. Go back to basics.
Use that God given gift called the human brain that is still today the best tool we know in the whole Universe, and put men safely on the moon.
Happy landings all you guys with wings.