JD,
You get the runway in use on the atis, yet you still get given it again with the taxi instruction, the line-up instruction, the take-off clearance, or the runway crossing don't you? No complaints there?
You write down your V speeds, yet you still bug them and call them. Or you cross check levels, or you double check you're shutting down the correct engine after a fire warning etc.
The point is, most of the items that are checked in this way are done so because the lessons of not doing so have already been learnt the hard way.