Cyclicrick,
I totally disagree with you that the throttle is OK where it is. I guess you havent had too many emergency's that require throttle manipultion.
High side gov failure in an Astar is a little differnt, you must immeaidtly lower collecitve and take the FCL out of the govering range.
Stuck pedals, kinda hard to adjust throttle to help control yaw.
There are several other things i wouldnt mind having it on the collective for.
They shouldnt have waited for the B3 to do it , but put it on the B2 years ago.
RB