You mean back in the day when the Captain looked at the FO and said “Sit down, shut up and don’t touch anything I don’t tell you to”? LOL
You are absolutely right on the training side but with DEI lowering training standards, the high cost of flight training, lower numbers of pilots and the larger pool of commercial pilots required due to the sheer volume increases in commercial flying the past 60 years the competency standards are lower. They probably shouldn’t be, but there is no doubt they are.