That’s nonsense and they clearly don’t understand the plane, or try to think they know more than the engineers.

I see it all the time with low time pilots on it. They try and reinvent the wheel and fly it like the 145 or crj, both of which it is not. The other issue is a lack of understanding on how the vnav works. The autothrottles work great. It really all comes down to knowledge and awareness. If I ignore conventional throttles they to will screw me, same with these.

The systems are designed to reduce the workload of the pilots, not completely remove it. Anyway rant over. Lol.