Exactly same in my time on coasters . 3 years with me and master 6/6 , cpp fited + bowthruster no ARPA /ECDIS /AIS and a truckload less regulations with no ISM/SMS yet but I saw master prepping for that new thing which was to revolutionalise everything and make SOPs safer. Less alarms at that time so one had to watch and understand what one was doing .
Now the saturation of various alarms requires aditional chapter in SMS called bridge alarms management systems . ( not talking about e/r alarm panel ) what gives an extra noise during UMS.
How one can monitor performance of the ECDIS w/o in depth study of 750-800 pages manual and tetsing with thousands of clicks each function available I simply can not imagine.
And with such a number of other smart gadgets ( each fm 100-700 pages ) user manual it takes time to get savvy with all of that. Otherwise one monitors nothing having no idea how it works , one is a mere spectator . The pundits tell you not to rely on single source of information , verify this or that .This is crazy . When you add to it a mobile ph preocupation the picture looks gloomy while the traffic gets thicker and faster with less room around.