flyburg:
My statement was certainly incomplete, and I'm sorry you find it dumb.
I think most human factors engineers would agree that the human animal doesn't do a great job of
monitoring a closed-loop system (e.g. autothrottle), particularly in a busy/distracting environment. The transition from "above-GS" to GS capture is effectively a system mode change that the A/T and the crew both missed.
If the system design leaves the human out-of-loop, then mode changes should be automatically announced to recapture the pilot's attention to focus on monitoring.
But that doesn't excuse what happened. I see this accident bears a remarkable resemblance to
DCA73AZ005, EAL401, where again no one was minding the store.