Yes, my point was that several recent Boeing crashes have been a direct result of pilots NOT looking at the engine instruments, but assuming - from the proxy of the thrust lever position(s) - what the engines were doing. But even then, the wrong thrust lever position - for example an asymmetry - has not been noticed. In particular, a common theme seems to be not noticing when the thrust lever(s) don't move, but should have moved.
The danger is that some use the moving thrust levers as their engine monitoring and get out of the vital habit of checking the engine instruments in every scan,
In Airbus FBW, pilots must look at the engine instruments to know what the engines have been commanded to do and are doing, (apart from large accelerations felt through the body).