Spaceflight does usually have much more automation that earth-based flight for sure. Modern spacecraft are capable of doing every part of flight automatically. In the 1960s, automation was less sophisticated, so they did more intervention than current astronauts do. It is flying in very different ways for sure. They were all very qualified test pilots (the best in the world at the time). There were many course corrections, but those were aided by computers, with data fed from the ground calculated by ground computers.

However, Armstrong did do the landing on the moon by hand. The automated landing sequence was overridden due to too many boulders in the landing area, so He (with a LOT of assistance from Buzz Aldrin) did the flying and landing by hand.

All other moon landings were more or less automatic. Armstrong's landing had the lightest touchdown of any.