Yes, well said. When one loses situational awareness it’s replaced with anxiety. When an inexperienced deck officer attempts to switch from the ECDIS to visual they immediately feel raising anxiety.
Better to ease them into the shallow end. As has been mentioned the navy solves this problem by splitting the conning / plotting tasks. On the commercial side it’s BRM.
EDIT: Speaking of anxiety, I recall on my first trip as mate on an Aleutian freighter. I was northbound in this section, at night, trying to navigate while also trying to find the next call-in point. Victoria traffic requested I call them at 'Sink" Island but I couldn’t find it on the chart.
After I bit I gave up looking on the chart and instead just called in at the same location the other vessels were calling.