Moving autothrottles are no panacea either, as three late Turkish pilots discovered on that 733 recently.
Yeah, apart from the fact the fact that the autothrottle had disengaged, thus was not moving; something one would have hoped one of the three might have noticed, if they were following SOP, and had their hand on the thrust levers.
Nothing is a panacea; I've seen someone try and land gear up with the warning horn going off! See numerous threads on safety/training being eroded.