I can understand your point of view and I agree with making the game more accessible.
Another issue, which would be is during that last 10 or so minutes when the bids really start to heat up I feel as though I can see what the market is for a player. If one guy put a bid on the player 2 days ago I know that I can just go up by 1k on him and he's probably not paying attention.
When I am looking for a player on the TL I am looking at my roster and have a basic idea of what I want. However I may think this player is worth 40k-90k I just got on and I'm looking at the player, while I bid I'm looking further ahead on the TL and I see someone with similar skills going for less. I know someone else is going to bid on the guy that's now going for 50k I can let that guy win. I feel like that with the auto bid, when does the auction end. If I bid at the last second on a guy I just saw does it just continue 3 more minutes.
And what about the times you see someone and you bid on him, you are the only bid for like 3 days and then boom some guy comes in and bids 30k more than you. And you are like "Ok screw this guy" I bid this guy up to 40k more than what he was going to pay and then I just leave him. That's fun to me.
I feel that auto-bidding takes your own control away which is why I would not use the feature. You are on the ropes about whether you want a player. You hit the bid button and you are immediately struck by another prospective player or you decide hey maybe this would have been better spent on my arena or I just saw a good staff member, but now you are locked into that possible salary commitment all the way up until whatever you said you'd spend be it 100-200k as it is now you just have to hope someone goes up one time on you. But with this system you have to wait until people gradually beat you. If they do this slowly it can really stink.