Astronauts would have been aware of Apollo era automation problems. The most notable the Apollo 11 Rendezvous Radar Switch eating all available CPU and nearly aborting the mission.<p>There&#x27;s also a cultural problem here. Many of the early astronauts were test pilots, who came from a &quot;I fly this&quot; culture.  Taking away their autonomy was difficult and every screw up that engineers made caused further rifts between the two.  Engineers vs astronauts was a common narrative back then.