NASA did switch to a view with some of the external cameras and sometimes some cockpit views. Their launch stream was pretty terrible. I had some family and friends (not space nerds) watching and asking a lot of questions because they were kind of interested but not getting much from the stream.

As far as “can it be automated”, Boeing Starliner and a bunch of crashed lunar landers over the last few years are examples of where human improvisation beats flight software. This mission is also testing life support systems. It’s pretty hard to make a good human simulator to test those.