I have to say it is very rare to fly a full approach including course reversal procedure, usually we do get radar vector and fly from there. Of course i can request the full procedure, but that would usually mean to enter a hold and wait until there is enough time in the arrival sequence to fit me in which costs a lot of extra fuel for no real reason.
Apart from that, in my company raw data and manual flying is encouraged and boeings opinion about autothrust is mainly "manual flight -> manual thrust" on the 737.