May I ask a question as an outsider with negligible piloting experience, and with all respect?
When you briefed planning to take the early exit, did you also brief or at least consider a plan to switch to a later exit in case making the early one became an unnecessary risk? Or in your mind was it more like either go around or follow plan A, there is no plan B ?
Also, what would you have done and what would have happened if the captain hadn't taken control of thrust? Would you have had an accident, made a spectacle & passenger complaints, or finished the job well enough?
That's what interests me as a potential passenger with you as a pilot. If you would have lost it and crashed, then it should matter in an interview. If you would have gotten us to the gate like nothing happened, just learn from it.
Now I'll go back to my corner.
P.S. on my first lesson I forced the base to final turn because I didn't plan a go-around before the landing. And I will never make those mistakes again even though that happened in 1990.
P.P.S. Who forgot to clean the reverser levers after all the people sweating checks handled them for years?