It's weird with Pickford, it's like all Journos and ex pros get selective amnesia regarding him, the times i've heard or read that Pickford's distribution is excellent, his kicking is shocking, most of his kicks go out of play or go to an opposing player, he's a average goalkeeper and the poster boy for why one of the world's top footballing nations has had a problem in producing average goalkeepers the last 2 decades.
All these goalkeepers that have played for England since Seaman, you could say Paul Robinson was the first of the batch to Ramsdale today , good reflexes/shot stopper and that is it, for the modern game English coaching is still producing this style of Keeper from a bygone generation.
Pickford, Pope, Ramsdale, Butland, Henderson, Johnston is an awful list for a England team with ambitions of winning things.