Do Buoys and light have less relevance?

[onesea]

With all the electronic equipment commercial craft are obliged to have how much reliance is still put on buoyage and lights?

Very little I imagine.

On a well manged bridge a tad more than that I think you would be surprised...

 

[Nostrodamus]

I don't turn it off. I use radar only, on dim, and its screen is predominately black so doesnt kill night vision. Plotter, even on night mode, does for me. The plotter is available quickly if I need it. I'd rather have eyes than a plotter.

I am not criticising which looking back it seems as if I am. I believe everyone has the right to navigate the way they feel best and most comfortable with.
I also agree that chart plotters do destroy night vision. I never use the night settings on mine but do turn it down as far as it will go. With me I am usually entering or navigating in waters I have never been in before so the more information and options I have the better.
I was brought up navigating between buoys without chart plotters. When doing so it is amazing how they seem to draw you in like a magnet and how I have gone all this time without actually hitting one I don't know.