Equally, diligent application of TMPFISCH (where T is Trim and P is expanded to include Pressurisation, H for 5 Hots etc) could work just as well as using a checklist that has about 20 ‘final’ items to be checked at or approaching the take off point. Beech checklist is an example of how NOT to do a checklist.
Years ago I did a MU 2 rating with a Swiss operator. There were checklists for before and after start and shut down only. At all times when the aircraft was in motion checks were done by scan and flow, and had to be known.
The rationale was that a single pilot in a busy environment needed to be heads up the whole time. It worked, but required discipline.