This comes down to not knowing how the systems works (A/P and A/T), not following your own company's SOP, having a check pilot obviously not doing his job properly and ultimately a Captain trained on the B777 that can't fly his aircraft on a VFR day on a visual approach to a runway without the assistance of auto flight, in other words, manually.
Judging from today's hearing, the NTSB doesn't see things quite that simply.