BASIC situational awareness would lead you to expect the thrust levers to advance as speed stabilised, and it feels awfully wrong & unnatural if they don't
While I'm totally with you, Airbus seems to have another point of view when it comes to aircraft feedback (be it levers or artificial sensations). This "new" philosophy might well infiltrate Boeing's cockpit as I'm not sure all pilots have their hands on the levers at all time.