Glueball, it is easy to blame these pilots but you're lucky to have feel. It takes a fair amount of time to get used to the fact that 99% of the time the thrust levers are just "limit switches". An A320 was lost back in March 1998 for the same problem i.e. 1 reverser unserviceable. On landing one engine was left in idle detent the other in climb detent. The result was the aircraft ran off the runway. Hopefully we can all learn from this.
As for the witch hunt to find someone to blame and or pay, pilots are always an easy target.