Yes given the following caveat, . US or Northern European Airline Pilots only.
1. Asian and 3rd world pilots are too heavily reliant on the Automatic features on Modern Planes. They rely on the computer for takeoffs and landings and just sit back and watch as the plane flies itself in most cases.
2. Asian and 3rd world pilots do not have both the stick time ans simulator time that US and Northern EU Pilots have. They are not challenged in the simulators the way US and EU pilots are. Consequently when problems arise they are dependent on manuals, not instinct and training.
I do believe there are some teething problems with the current 737Max. Now both crashes the pilots were on Automatic which may have been avoided if the pilots were actually flying the plane
Actually they weren't - according to the black box flight recorder on the Lion Air (from what little info they were able to recover from it, it was badly water damaged), the software overrode pilot instructions and they were unable to turn it off.
The disconnect is at their knee, easy to disengage the auto pilot. They were trying to override the software when the should have been in manual mode - is my understanding. Source - news and a friend who is an instructor pilot
Benedict Arnold 