uniu.. the reason the NG is like this is for commonality with the classic.Too many operators flying a mixed fleet of classic and NG. You may know about the southwest NG's ,without a/t,lvl chg....
Jambo,what plane are you flying? It doesn't seem so complicated a system: bleeds on,packs on and pressure on AUTO. Do you really need some fancy pushbuttons?
Mistakes were made by no adherence with procedures.It can be done on all type of planes,no matter how advanced.Only the pilotless airplane won't do that.
Now you have something with the master caution sys...I suppose you would like ECAM more...
As I said above the number of 737 classic on the market is to high, so the NG should have the same procedures, for commonality.
The NG is an advanced airplane, it has more in common with the 777 than with the 737 classic ,under the skin. But on the outside should look and fly as close as posible as the classic.
You may know ,for ex , that although the pressurization sys looks the same,it's different in design and operation.