Gee, I remember when QF said that only employ 'The creme de la creme' of pilots. What happened, creme gone off? The sort of procedures that they have now included in their manual have been in practice by other airlines for years and are a normal sort of personal error check by professional pilots. You can't teach 'horse sense ' via a manual annotation but, I suppose you can appease CASA, if you are Qantas.
You also can't say that the pilots were inexperienced and I suspect that they would have been under QF 's watchful eye for almost all of their 10,000 hours.