It all sounds like russian roulette for the PASSENGERS ,,, management telling the pilots how to suck every joule of energy out of every gram of fuel , saving pennies here and dimes there and creating a condition wherin factors lead to increased holes in the cheese model of accident investigation !!!
Put the friggen throttles to MAX take-off power, get off the ground and get climbing early THEN think of saving pennies here and dimes there,,,looks like the cart is ruling the horse NOW !!!
Its not just about saving pennies - its about longer engine life, and less exposure to max temps/high egts etc, will hopefully mean less chance of the engine exploding/catastrophic failure on some dark and stormy night at MTOW.