Certainly the best landings on commercial liners seem to be on average when on auto, the best manual landing I have had recently was a trip back from Guernsey when the Bombardier Q300 had its landing wheels nearly stuffed full length up the rams, a real goodie and so predictable when you heard the engine note go up full level just before hitting the deck, talk about the pilot being behind the game.

Electronics do have there uses though and when used in the right manner can far surpass human senses, take gliding flight computers which compute final glides when the landing field is over the horizon or the modern Nav stuff such as GPS.